English: Richard Caton Woodville left his native Baltimore to study in Düsseldorf under the direction of Carl Ferdinand Sohn, a noted German genre painter. He remained abroad for most of his brief career, dying in London at the age of 30. While residing in Europe, he painted from memory a number of genre scenes recalling his youth in Baltimore. In this example executed in Paris, a lively wedding party has interrupted a justice of the peace in the course of his chicken dinner. This work illustrates the artist's remarkable powers of characterization and shows his meticulous attention to detail. The goat-hair chest, his trademark red spittoon, and the Franklin Almanac were common household items of the period.
Romanticism in America. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1940. Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof, Dusseldorf. 1979. Nineteenth Century Maryland Life. Kanagawa Prefectural Museum, Kanagawa. 1986. New Horizons: American Painting 1840-1910. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, Leningrad; Minsk State Art Museum, Minsk. 1987-1988. Vice-Versa: German Painters in America. American Painters in Germany 1813-1913. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. 1996. Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001. The American Artist as Painter and Draftsman. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2001. The Dusseldorf School of Painting-Crossing Bridges between Cultures. Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf. 2011-2012.
Credit line
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1861
Inscriptions
[Signature] Lower left: R. C. W.; [Date] Lower left: 1852
This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page.
The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by a Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2012021710000834.
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
The author died in 1927, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or fewer.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
Note that Mexico has a term of 100 years and does not implement the rule of the shorter term, so this image may not be in the public domain in Mexico.
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
This digital reproduction has been released under the following licenses:
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Walters Art Museum. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: Walters Art Museum grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
In many jurisdictions, faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are not copyrightable. The Wikimedia Foundation's position is that these works are not copyrightable in the United States (see Commons:Reuse of PD-Art photographs). In these jurisdictions, this work is actually in the public domain and the requirements of the digital reproduction's license are not compulsory.
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = {{Creator:Richard Caton Woodville}} |title = ''The Sailor's Wedding'' |description = {{en|Richard Caton Woodville left his native Baltimore to study in Düsseld...
File usage
The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):