♥♥ LOUIS BUVELOT ORIGINAL COLONIAL PAINTING FROM 1881♥♥

Artist: Abraham-Louis Buvelot (1814 - 1888)

Title of work: Landscape with Sheep

Date of work: 1881

Medium: watercolour on paper

Image dimensions: 19cm (width) x 34cm (height) (sight)

Provenance:

Signed "A L Buvelot" lower right

Inscribed "Merry Christmas 1881" lower left

Private Collection, Melbourne

Condition:

This watercolour is in wonderful condition.  The colours are as bright and bold as the day they were painted! This work has clearly been very well looked after. 

Other Notes:

This work is a highly characteristic example of Abraham-Louis Buvelot's Australian landscape painting, offering a tranquil transcript of nature where sheep graze contentedly while the day lengthens peacefully into twilight. The area is fenced, cool waters flow nearby, while nature herself cradles the scene in her enfolding hills. Buvelot was the master of such scenes, all enveloped in a luminous atmosphere with the bush bathed in gentle sunlight. These were the images that appealed so greatly to the youthful Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts, who so admired his work that they acknowledged him as 'the "father" of landscape painting in Australia.' He was the most admired painter of his day, his death in 1888 being commemorated by a large retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria where, in 1894, the Grosvenor Gallery was renamed the Buvelot Gallery in his honour. Even his memorial at the Kew Cemetery was erected through public subscription.

This type of scene appealed to Buvelot, and apparently to his clients, for he returned to the subject on a number of ocassions. See the sepia wash, Bacchus Marsh of 1881 (which is related to one of the Lerderderg drawings in Melbourne), in the Bendigo Art Gallery, for a similar example.

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