94. Romania Unchained [1866]

Initiated in painting by his uncle, Nicolae Teodorescu (1786 / 1797-1880), founder of the School of Painters in Buzău, the young Tattarescu would go on a prolific artistic journey. After graduating from the School of Painting (1831-1837), he shall attend the courses of Academia di San Luca ("Academy of Saint Luke") (1845-1851), also taking private lessons with the painter Natale Carta. He would travel to Italy, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Russia and from 1872 he would stand out in the artistic manifestations of Bucharest (The Exhibition of the Friends of Fine Arts 1872; Exhibition of the Living Artists, 1865, 1868, 1870, 1881; Exhibition of the Art Gallery, 1888; Romanian Athenaeum Salon, 1890; Retrospective Exhibition of Romanian Artists Painters and Sculptors from the last 50 years, 1927), and international exhibitions (Universal Exhibition in Paris, 1867; 1889). He would stand out through a perfect portraiture, along with compositions with a religious, historical, mythological or allegorical theme, genre scenes and landscapes. Along with the revolutionary portraiture that he approached around the 1848s, the artist would also address the national ideal, exhibited in works such as "The rebirth of Romania" (1849), "The awakening of Romania" (1850; 1866; 1885), "Nemesis, the goddess of revenge" (1853), "Union of Principalities" (1857) or "11 February 1866 - Modern Romania", initiatives that ranked the artist Tattarescu among the founders of Romanian militant painting. (GM)

Literatura

NANU, Adina, „Gh. Tattarescu”, ESPLA, București, 1955. WERTHEIMER-GHIKA, Jaques, „Gheorghe M. Tattarescu. Un pictor și veacul său”; ESPLA, București, 1958. Catalogul Expoziției centenare „Gheorghe M. Tattarescu 1818-1894”, Ed. Alcor Edimpex, București, 1994.

Dimenzije

width 24 cm, height 31 cm

Opis

oil on canvas, signed and dated bottom right, with grey, "Tattarescu, 1866"

Informacije o istraživanju

The work of art participated in the central exhibition "Notes on a Landscape", Artsafari, Bucharest, 2017. The work of art participated in the exhibition "Tricolor", Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest, 2018 and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue. The work of art participated in the exhibition "Perspectives", Europalia, BOZAR, Brussels, 2019. The allegorical subject of Modern Romania was depicted by Gheorghe Tattarescu in 3 variants, 2 in colour painting, one of which is kept in the collection of the Gheorghe Tattarescu Museum and the other in a private collection. His third painting, in colourful nuances of grey, is on display here and was intended for courting Count Philip of Flanders, through the Consul General of Belgium in the Principality, Jacques Poumay, after abdication of Alexandru Ioan Cuza.

Izlasci

1866

PODRIJETLO

colecție istorică, Belgia.

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