File:Les Femmes Savantes by Charles Robert Leslie FA.117 O.jpg
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[edit]Charles Robert Leslie: Les Femmes Savantes ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q325633 |
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Les Femmes Savantes |
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painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Oil paintings such as this with subjects taken from popular literature steadily replaced commissions for history paintings in the early 19th century. The public and most collectors of modern works started to prefer lighter and sometimes more sentimental themes. Leslie frequently used themes from humorous literature. Here he is illustrating a scene from a play by Molière, Les Femmes Savantes ('The Learned Ladies'), in which the conceited Trissotin reads a pretentious sonnet of his own composition to his admiring audience of literary ladies, the self-styled 'learned ladies' of the title. When this picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1845, it was called A Scene from Molière and several lines from the play were quoted in the catalogue. Although Leslie began his career as a history and portrait painter, he soon turned to literary themes. The collector John Sheepshanks (1787-1863) owned 17 paintings by Leslie with subjects taken from well-known authors such as Shakespeare, Chaucer and Molière. |
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Date |
1845 date QS:P571,+1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas, with carved wood and composition frame | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height 99 cm Width 76.1 cm Height 136 cm (framed) Width 105 cm (framed) |
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institution QS:P195,Q213322 |
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Place of creation | London, England (painted) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history | Given by John Sheepshanks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum via BBC YourPaintings and Wikimedia Commons | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Art UK |
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13:47, 24 December 2007 | 320 × 320 (19,929 bytes) | w:en:VAwebteam (talk | contribs) | (Les Femmes Savantes, 1845, Charles Robert Leslie(RA), born 1794 - died 1859 Museum no. FA.117[O] Techniques - oil on canvas, with carved wood and composition frame Place - London, England (painted) Dimensions - Height 99 cm Width 76.1 cm Height 136 c) |
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