Harvesting

Artist George Clausen (1852 - 1944)

Datec. 1890

MediumLithograph on paper

Dimensions19 x 27 cm

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by George Clausen (the Artist).

Object number418

DescriptionThis is a lithographic print showing a male figure to left using a scythe in a field, followed, to right, by a figure binding corn into shocks (stooks). There is another shadowy figure working in centre foreground. The figures are delineated against the skyline with low sun in the middle.

Clausen attended the design classes at the South Kensington schools from 1867-1873 with great success. He then worked in the studio of Edwin Long, R.A., and subsequently in Paris under Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury. He became one of the foremost modern painters of landscape and of peasant life, influenced to a certain extent by the impressionists with whom he shared the view that light is the real subject of landscape art. From the 1880s Clausen devoted himself to painting realistic scenes of rural work after seeing such pictures by the French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-84).

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