peinture
painting
| Nom de l'objet : | peinture painting |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Moyens de communication Communication Artifacts |
| Matériaux : | Bois Wood |
| Numéro de catalogue : | HX.1999.36.1 |
| Numéro d'accession : | HX.1999.36.1 |
| Description : | Painting,Oil-"FORT GARRY 1859",wood frame; Oil painting in wooden frame with a molded plaster trim and a gold tone mat. Painting is titled "Fort Garry 1859." and underlined with red paint in the lower right hand corner. Image shows Upper Fort Garry as viewed from across the river, river bank in foreground with aboriginal in canoe in river. A small outbulding is behind and to the right. A second outbuilding is along a fence to the left. A heavy trail is worn from the river bank to the entrance to the fort. No signature but likely painted by Lionel McDonald Stephenson. |
| Commentaires : | Thank you letter to Ms. Barton, April 15, 1999: "...We will have the painting cleaned and I anticipate hanging it in a refurnished building at one of our national historic sites...The painter has been identified as Lionel mcDonald Stpehenson. The following quotation is taken from the exhibition catalogue '150 Years of Art in Manitoba';'...b.1854, France, educated in English military college and France. Left with family for winnpeg, 1885. Executed numerous naive oil paintings, mostly of Fort Garry, for sale to troops from the East in the Riel Rebellion. Reproduced these, perhaps after earlier paintings or photographs, in countless numbers, arbitrarily dated. He died in 1907 in Winnipeg. Signed his works LMS.'...Accordingly we can date this painting to the period between 1885 and 1907. |
| Longueur : | 57 |
| Largeur : | 41.5 |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Établissement : | Parcs Canada Parks Canada |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Ottawa |
| Province de l'établissement : | Ontario |
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