Date: c. 1787
Technique: Oil on canvas, 58.4 x 76.3 cm
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Showing posts with label Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Show all posts
12/29/16
Joseph Wright of Derby, Vesuvius from Portici
Date: 1774-76
Technique: Oil on canvas, 101 x 127 cm
Joseph Wright of Derby, Vesuvius from Posillipo
Date: c. 1788
Technique: Oil on panel, 635 x 838 mm
Joseph Wright of Derby, Cave at evening (aka Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno)
Date: 1774
Technique: Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 127 cm
5/10/16
Joseph Wright of Derby, The Prisoner
Date: 1787-90
Technique: Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 47 cm
1/24/16
Joseph Wright of Derby, Romeo and Juliet. The Tomb Scene
Date: 1790
Technique: Oil on canvas, 177.8 x 241.3 cm
The painting shows Wright's famed skill with nocturnal and candlelit scenes. It depicts the moment in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at which Juliet, kneeling beside Romeo's body, hears a footstep and draws Romeo's dagger. Juliet's line is "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" and is said just before Juliet kills herself. In addition to this painting, Derby Museum also own a preparatory sketch by Wright. On the sketch he proposes the change he made to the painting where he moved the sarcophagus and its niche to the right. Wright was trying to increase the size of the image of the illuminated wall. The gladiatorial figure of Juliet with her outstretched arms attracts the eye and the heroic death of Romeo have been compared to Michelangelo's drawing of Tityus.
2/23/13
Joseph Wright of Derby, The Old Man and Death
Date: 1774
Technique: Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 127 cm
6/15/11
Joseph Wright of Derby, The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Date: 1771
Technique: Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm
Full title: The Alchymist, In Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers
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6/8/10
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher by Lamplight
Derby Museums and Art Gallery
Date: 1769
Technique: Oil on canvas, 1282 x 1029 mm
An old man in the costume of a hermit or philosopher contemplates human bones in a lamp-lit cave, while two small men or boys dressed as pilgrims (the shells in the hats identify them as such) approach with trepidation. The exact subject of this painting is uncertain; it may relate to several different literary sources. Wright has been more concerned with creating a sense of weird mystery; note the strange discrepancy of scale between the hermit and the young men.
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