Title
At Lilydale
1870
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1870
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.1 x 101.6 cm stretcher; 103.0 x 127.8 x 9.0 cm 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
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 244.1990
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Louis Buvelot
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Christie's Melbourne: Australian pictures, Sculpture and Pottery (1990), Christie's, Australia Pty. Ltd., Double Bay, 27 Jul 1990–30 Jul 1990
Swiss artists in Australia 1777-1991, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jan 1991–10 Mar 1991
Swiss artists in Australia 1777-1991, The George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 28 Mar 1991–28 Apr 1991
Swiss artists in Australia 1777-1991, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, 04 May 1991–09 Jun 1991
Swiss artists in Australia 1777-1991, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 21 Jun 1991–04 Aug 1991
Swiss artists in Australia 1777-1991, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 18 Aug 1991–29 Sep 1991
Art Treasures of Olympic Cities, Lausanne Olympic Museum, , 22 Jun 1993–03 Oct 1993
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 10 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, 10 Masterpieces of Australian Painting, Sydney, 1993, (colour illus.).
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Raymond F Henderson, From Jolimont to Yering and along our Yarra Valleys with Neuchatel's bachelor vignerons, Melbourne, 2006, 142 (colour illus.). plate no. 6.18
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Painting and Sculpture', pg. 102-181, Sydney, 1999, 108 (colour illus.).
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Sandra Jane, Art is ... making, creating and appreciating 2, Milton, 1999, 217 (colour illus.).
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Art treasures: candidate citites for the 2000 Olympic Games: Beijing, Berlin, Brasilia, Istanbul, Manchester, Sydney, 'At Lilydale', pg. 164, Lausanne, 1993, 164, 165 (colour illus.). cat.no. 3 Sydney
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Hendrik Kolenberg, Swiss artists in Australia 1777-1991, 'Louis Buvelot', pg. 37-52, Sydney, 1991, 43 (colour illus.), 110. cat.no. 29
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Ewen McDonald, AGNSW Collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 12 (colour illus.).
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Vivienne Webb, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Golden age', pg. 37-38, Sydney, 2000, 40 (colour illus.), 300.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Christie's Australia - Australian pictures, sculpture and Pottery. Melbourne, 30 July 1990, South Yarra, Jul 1990, front cover (colour illus., detail), 57 (colour illus.). lot.no. 141
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