Sujet

The Convalescent, 1875. Creator: John Everett Millais.

Légende

The Convalescent, 1875. With no antibiotics to stave off complications, a childish attack of 'flu might prove grave. Convalescence was achieved by many hours spent in loving nursing care and overnight vigil. Here, the little girl's condition appears to be improving and the flowers in her listless hand may be seen to symbolise her recovery, but also to suggest the transience and fragility of all forms of life.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A03_459

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

37,7Mo (3,2Mo) / 27,9cm x 33,9cm / 3295 x 4000 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature Europe portrait England female people child children girl girls interior health sitting flower flowers plant plants arts painting country model figure figures art continent British museum English European color wild flowers wild flower scene illness hair depiction location Victorian century gallery long hair Britain flu inside ill red hair concept mortality wildflower seated looking at camera convalescence wildflowers ginger hair influenza long haired art gallery oil Painting Colour 19th century Indoors 1870s nineteenth century culture artistic school convalescent Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite direct gaze John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais John Everett Millais RA Millais Alice 'flu convalescing artistic style Millais John Everett Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum art centre artist's daughter Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums artist's model 1875 John Millais Millais John Sir John Millais artist's family Heritage Art Sir JE Millais 19th-century J.E. Millais Aberdeen Archives Alice Millais Alice Sophia Caroline Millais Alice Sophia Caroline Millais Stuart-Wortley