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| Title | Homewards | |
| Alternative Title | Return from Labour | |
| Original Translation | Retour de labourage [?] | |
| Collection | Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Veyrassat, Jules Jacques (French painter, 1828-1893) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1860 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1870 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | The painting depicts a rural road, with a peasant man riding home on one of his two cart-horses, and a peasant woman leading a small flock of lambs. In her right hand she is carrying a scythe and under her left arm is a small sheaf of some crop. | |
| Current Accession Number | BLKMG:P216 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'J Veyrassat' | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (horse, sheep) | |
| Measurements | 21.5 x 34.4 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Miss Stock 1924. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Paris Salon, 1869, cat. no. 2350, as Retour de labourage (?). | |
| Notes | Although the frame is inscribed with the title Homewards, the painting is also listed in the Blackburn records as the Return from Labour. This may identify it as the painting exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1869, cat. no. 2350, Retour de labourage, which would allow us to give a fairly precise date for the painting of about 1869. However it may also well be the painting exhibited in Ernest Gambart's 10th annual exhibition of modern French and Flemish paintings in 1863 as no. 133 as Returning from labour, which Martin Hopkinson (2012) considers more likely than it being a Salon painting. |
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| Rights Owner | © Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery | |
| Author | Malcolm Barclay | |