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| Title: | Suicide |
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| Notes: | "The palette, pistol, and note lying on the floor suggest the tragic sequence of events that has taken place. An artist overcome by adversity has taken his life. Although no particular victim is indicated, this subject might have been prompted by the suicides in 1835 of Decamps' fellow artists Léopold Robert and Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, whose late paintings had been severely criticized." Walters Art Museum. --- "He [Descamps] availed himself of his travels in the East in dealing with scenes from Scripture history, which he was probably the first of European painters to represent with their true and natural local background. Of this class were his Joseph sold by his Brethren, Moses taken from the Nile, and his scenes from the life of Samson, nine vigorous sketches in charcoal and white." from Wikipedia |
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| Date: | ca. 1836 |
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| Artist: | Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel, 1803-1860 |
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| Building: | Walters Art Museum
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Baltimore
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| State: | MD
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Revelation 21:1-6a
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| Lectionary links: | BAllS
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| General Subject: | Death
Suicide
New Age
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| Copyright Source: | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandre-Gabriel_Decamps_-_The_Suicide_-_Walters_3742.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel, 1803-1860. Suicide, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55475 [retrieved April 28, 2024]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandre-Gabriel_Decamps_-_The_Suicide_-_Walters_3742.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 55475
Last Updated: 2021-09-03 13:13:21
Record Created: 2013-01-24 14:10:52 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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