John La Farge, 1870 - The Muse of Painting - fine art print

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This 19th century artwork The Muse of Painting was painted by John La Farge in 1870. The original has the size - 49 1/2 x 38 1/4 in (125,7 x 97,2 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the North American painter as the technique for the artwork. This artwork is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Walters, 1909 (license - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Walters, 1909. What is more, the alignment is portrait with a ratio of 3 : 4, meaning that the length is 25% shorter than the width.

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By 1870, La Farge had moved away from his early realistic manner to a more decorative, academic style of easel painting. "The Muse of Painting" synthesizes the different and somewhat contradictory tendencies found in his work at this time. The landscape represents a site that artist painted frequently, the ridge behind Bishop Berkeley's Rock near his farm outside of Newport, Rhode Island. The figure belongs to the mainstream of nineteenth-century ideal painting, representing an allegory of the art of painting. In an odd twist, La Farge depicted the muse as an artist rather than as the inspiratrice of an artist. Her inspiration is the surrounding landscape of Newport, proving that nature is the true muse of painting. The landscape and overall composition are handled in highly decorative manner, mingling carefully observed details with dreamy, evocative colors.

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