Louis Buvelot
(Australia, Switzerland, Brazil 03 Mar 1814–30 May 1888)
At Lilydale
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
An established photographer, painter and lithographer, Louis Buvelot arrived in Melbourne in 1865 and quickly found buyers for his tranquil pastoral scenes, inspired by Dutch 17th-century landscape painting and the French Barbizon school. Finding subjects in the environs of Melbourne, he led sketching tours with fellow plein-air painters Frederick McCubbin and John Ford Paterson. 'At Lilydale' depicts one of the artist’s favourite painting spots near the Yarra Valley, and is imbued with a gentle serenity in which nature and man are, seemingly, in perfect harmony.
This original frame is attributed to the prominent 19th-century Melbourne workshop of Isaac Whitehead.
- Year
- 1870
- Media
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.1 x 101.6cm stretcher; 103.0 x 127.8 x 9.0cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l., brown oil "L.Buvelot./ 1870".
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Art Gallery Society of New South Wales 1990
- Accession number
- 244.1990
