Sujet

The Sailor's Wedding, 1852. Creator: Richard Caton Woodville.

Légende

The Sailor's Wedding, 1852. In this late painting, Woodville arranged a large group of figures in the light, airy space of an office of a justice of the peace. At the center, a strapping red-haired sailor holds the arm of his demure bride. A subsidiary drama unfolds in the doorway, where two African-American figures hold back a crying child and a grizzled old sailor looks in from the street. The details that set the scene, from the books and papers overflowing the horsehair trunk, to an almanac page pasted to the bookcase, to the red spittoon and glistening andirons, all "finished as with a microscope," add to its visual effect.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B22_130

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,2Mo (1,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,7cm / 4960 x 4103 (300dpi)

Mots clés

portrait standing Caucasian women woman people interior group man men ceremony family religious arts painting doorway country marriage religion parent white art guy museum ceremonial color mother wedding door doors war motherhood location century inside bridal bride parenting witness priest concept law and order Navy ethnicity African American African-American full length afro-american full-length sailor metaphor warfare sailors mum oil Painting United States of America Colour Bride's naval warfare 19th century Indoors bystander nineteenth century American America USA 1850s oil bystanders united states young women young man young men young woman Justice of the Peace Justice of Peace mixed race group Walters Art Museum Woodville Richard Caton Richard Caton Woodville Heritage Art oil on fabric oil on fabric Woodville Richard Caton I Richard Caton Woodville I Woodville Richard Caton the elder Richard Caton Woodville the elder Richard Caton Woodville senior 19th-century