Title

The Village Belle - by H. Schlesinger, from the exhibition at the French Gallery, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The Village Belle - by H. Schlesinger, from the exhibition at the French Gallery, 1876. Engraving of a painting. '...Herr H. Schlesinger seems to have broken, or to be intending to break, comparatively new ground...Here...we have a rustic beauty of no marked nationality. But why is the belle of the village seated alone in this leafy retreat, nibbling the stalk of a flower with an air so sweetly pensive, if not disconsolate? For whom has she plucked that pretty basketful of flowers? Is this a trysting-place, and doth the expected one not come? These are questions which are in the poetical province of the painter to ask; but which we hold it is our duly to leave to the ingenuity, discernment, fancy, and sympathy of our readers to answer each for him or her self'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A80_500

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,9Mb (6,9Mb) / 13,8in x 16,5in / 4153 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature female women woman people flower flowers plant plants arts painting art basket British color century gallery Britain kitsch newspapers press print concept exhibition B&W sentimental engraved engraving art gallery Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN newspaper young women young woman Unknown art centre 19th-century Carl Wilhelm H?bner H?bner Carl Wilhelm H. Schlesinger Schlesinger H. Carl Wilhelm Hubner Hubner Carl Wilhelm Schlesinger Henry Guillaume Henry Guillaume Schlesinger