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The first born
Gaston La Touche1887
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
La Touche won a medal for this work at the Paris Salon of 1888 and received excellent notices. Yet soon afterwards he abandoned his sombre realist manner and started painting the brightly coloured and freely brushed works for which he is better known. Here a tranquil moment after the trauma of a birth is tenderly observed. Several carefully observed details hint at the narrative of the young couple’s life together.
Details
- Title: The first born
- Creator: Gaston La Touche
- Date Created: 1887
- Physical Dimensions: 144.8 x 144.8 cm stretcher; 167.5 x 167.5 x 7.5 cm frame
- Provenance: Paris Salon, Paris/France, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Paris Salon 1888.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: Purchased 1888
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Signature & Date: Signed and dated l.r. [on box], brown paint "M P Gaston La Touche/ 1887".
- Artist Country: France
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