
Sir David WilkieÉcosse, 1785–1841Peut-on la contempler ?
Londres, Royaume-Uni
Elle appartient à la collection, mais n’est pas présentée en ce moment.
Sir David Wilkie exhibited this small genre scene at the Royal Academy in 1816. Such pictures held enormous popular and commercial appeal and were collected in great numbers in the first half of the nineteenth century. Indeed, genre scenes made up an important part of the gift of some 500 pictures given to the Museum by John Sheepshanks in 1857 as the basis of a national collection of British painting.
Victoria and Albert Museum