The Stone Breaker and His Daughter

The Stone Breaker and His Daughter
ArtistEdwin Landseer
Year1830
TypeOil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions45.7 cm × 58.4 cm (18.0 in × 23.0 in)
LocationVictoria and Albert Museum, London

The Stone Breaker and His Daughter is an 1830 genre painting by the British artist Edwin Landseer.[1] It shows a stonebreaker, one of the workers who broke rocks for the laying of new roads, in the Scottish Highlands. Landseer offers a sympathetic depiction of the weary man, exhausted by his tiring labour, and contrasts it with the fresh-faced innocence of his young daughter who has brought him his lunch basket.[2] It is also known simply as The Stonebreaker. The work was displayed at the British Institution's annual exhibition of 1830 in Pall Mall.[2] Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, having been bequeathed by the art collector John Jones.[3]

References

  1. ^ Jenkins p.20
  2. ^ a b Ormond p.76
  3. ^ Landseer, Edwin Henry (Sir, RA) (June 7, 1830). "The Stone Breaker and His Daughter" – via Victoria & Albert Museum.

Bibliography

  • Jenkins, Adrian. Painters and Peasants: Henry La Thangue and British Rural Naturalism, 1880-1905. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, 2000.
  • Ormond, Richard. Sir Edwin Landseer. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.

See also

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