Maria (painting)
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| Maria | |
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| Artist | Charles Landseer |
| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 55.9 cm × 46.9 cm (22.0 in × 18.5 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Maria is an 1836 oil painting by the English artist Charles Landseer.[1] It is inspired by a passage in the 1768 novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by the Anglo-Irish author Laurence Sterne.[2] It depicts Maria, a mournful young woman left disconsolate by her husband's death. She is accompanied by a small dog.[3]
The painting was displayed at the 1836 exhibition of the British Institution, held at Pall Mall. It was purchased by John Sheepshanks, a noted collector of contemporary British art, who in 1857 donated it to the new Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington as part of the Sheepshanks Gift.[4]
