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George Dunlop Leslie: Matilda   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
George Dunlop Leslie  (1835–1921)  wikidata:Q1403572
 
George Dunlop Leslie
Alternative names
George Leslie
Description British genre painter, illustrator and author
Date of birth/death 2 July 1835 Edit this at Wikidata 21 February 1921 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Lindfield (Sussex)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1403572
Title
Matilda
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
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Singing and culling flower after flower,
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—Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII, v. 40-42

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(see source) Dante's Matilda (Matelda) is usually identified with Matilda, Countess of Tuscany (1046-1115) of the house of Canossa. Leslie depicted her gathering flowers in a beautiful landscape, watched in the distance by Dante, Virgil and Statius. When it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860 it was accompanied by a quotation from Psalms; "For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands" (Psalm XCII, 4) The review by Tom Taylor in Times described it as "a lady reclining in a green garden on the edge of a pool starred with water lilies" and celebrated the "power of faithful landscape painting and a thoughtful and graceful feeling for female form and character, which promise well for this young painter's future." It was bought from the artist by John Hamilton Trist (1811-1891) a wine-merchant from Brighton who owned a fine collection of modern paintings, including examples by Albert Moore, Rossetti, Alma-Tadema and Leighton with a particular taste for the work of Arthur Hughes (he owned twenty examples).
Date 1859
date QS:P571,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 51.4 cm (20.2 in); width: 92.7 cm (36.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,51.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,92.7U174728
Object history Purchased from the artist by John Hamilton Trist and thence by descent to Herbert Hardwick Trist in 1899 and further descent to Mrs Louisa Mary Trist (née Rigden);
Christie's, 23 April 1937 to 'Fasey';
Fine Art Society, London where purchased by a private collector;
Christie's, 10 June 2003, lot 103;
Sotheby's, London, 17 December 2015, lot 22.
Exhibition history London, Royal Academy, 1860, no. 578.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1905, no. 421.
Inscriptions

Artist's monogram and date bottom right:

GDL 1859
Artist's address reverse:
G D Leslie. 2 Abercorn Place St Johns wood No 2
References Christie's, LotFinder: entry 4111846 (sale 6726, lot 103, London, King Street, 10 June 2003)
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 17 December 2015, lot 22

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