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Louis Buvelot
(Australia, Switzerland, Brazil 03 Mar 1814–30 May 1888)
- Title
- A summer evening in the Pentland Hills
- Other titles:
- Landscape with house and figures
- Year
- 1876
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- pencil, watercolour, white gouache scraping out on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
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40.3 x 59.1cm sheet; 57.2 x 73.2cm sight edge; 64.2 x 80.2cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l. corner, pen and brown ink "L Buvelot 1876".
- Credit
- Edward Stinson Bequest Fund 1998
- Accession number
- 85.1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Buvelot was a particularly skilled draughtsman and watercolourist whose subtlety of touch rendered the Australian bush with sensitivity and a new understanding of light and colour. He had a great influence on the generation of Australian landscape painters that followed him, acknowledged by Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin as the 'Father' of Australian landscape painting.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000
- Bibliography (4)
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'Australian images from the past: whether rarely seen or familiar, these works move and delight us' by Hendrik Kolenberg, pg. 24-27., Look Apr 2005, Apr 2005, 24-25 (colour illus.).
Hendrik Kolenberg (Netherlands; Australia) (Author), Anne Ryan (Australia) (Author), Patricia James (Author), 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, Domain, 2005, 10, 63 (colour illus.).
Barry Pearce (Australia) (Author), Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Domain, 2000, 39 (colour illus.), 300.
Deutscher Fine Art (Melbourne), 19th & 20th century Australian & international paintings, sculpture & works on paper, Monday 10 August 1998 at 6:30 pm at Leonda by the Yarra, 2 Wallen Road, Hawthorn, Victoria, Melbourne, 1998, 29 (colour illus.). lot no. 15
- Exhibition history (2)
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19th & 20th century Australian & international paintings, sculpture & works on paper, Deutscher Fine Art (Melbourne), 10 Aug 1998–10 Aug 1998.
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Apr 2005–24 Jul 2005.
