William Michael Harnett, 1886 - The Old Violin - fine art print

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The Old Violin is one of Harnett's most famous paintings. The subject is deceptively simple; a violin, a sheet of music, a small newspaper clipping, and a blue envelope are shown against a background formed by a green wooden door. The painting is also a work of multi–layered meanings involving the relationships between illusion and reality, between old and new, and between the momentary and the enduring. At the heart of such meanings is the transience of time, which the artist illustrated by showing signs of wear and age throughout the painting. Even the songs, one from Bellini's La Sonnambula, and the other the popular song "Helas, Quelle Douleur", are concerned with temporal change. But it is the violin itself, now mute, but worn with use and still dusted with rosin, that speaks most evocatively of past pleasures.

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About the more than 130 year-old artpiece

"The Old Violin" is a piece of art made by William Michael Harnett in 1886. The original measures the size: 96,5 x 60 cm (38 x 23 5/8 in) and was crafted with the medium oil on canvas. The artwork forms part of the National Gallery of Art's art collection, which is the museum of the US-American nation that preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters an understanding of works of art. We are pleased to state that this public domain artwork is being provided with courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.Creditline of the artwork: . On top of that, alignment is in portrait format and has an image ratio of 2 : 3, which means that the length is 33% shorter than the width. William Michael Harnett was a painter from Ireland, whose artistic style can mainly be assigned to Realism. The artist lived for a total of 44 years, born in 1848 in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland and passed away in the year 1892 in New York City, New York state, United States.

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