Mowing

Artist George Clausen (1852 - 1944)

Date1898

MediumLithograph on paper

Dimensions9 x 20 cm

ClassificationsPrint

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

Object number422

DescriptionThis is a lithographic print showing a three-quarter length male figure, facing the viewer, wearing a wide brimmed hat and clasping the handles of a scythe with both hands.

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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