The Threshers
Artist
George Clausen
(1852 - 1944)
Date1890s
MediumLithograph on paper
Dimensions23 x 19 cm
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by George Clausen (the Artist).
Object number420
DescriptionThis is a lithographic print showing two figures seen from behind, working in a dark interior, possibly a barn.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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