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Painting
Trial Scene
David Gilmour Blythe, 1815 - 1865
Blythe, David Gilmour
United States
1815 - 1865
Male
22 1/4 x 27 in. (56.5 x 68.6 cm)
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Oil
Oil
ca. 1862-1863
1862
1863
1800-1900, 19th century, genre scenes, men, paintings, politics in art
Painting
Blythe’s painting shows a scene of frontier justice in a rough building serving as a courtroom. A backwoods “lawyer” at the center either defends or makes his case against a shackled prisoner at the right. However, some elements of the scene, including the onlookers—some armed with long guns, some distracted by a card game—and the pot and sack at the lower left labelled “tar” and “feathers,” reveal that this is an extrajudicial proceeding. The prisoner whittles unconcernedly while his fate is decided, suggesting that this is a typically satirical genre scene for Blythe, who made other paintings of farcical trials and caricatured politics.
[Gallery label text, 2019]
verso, Exhibition label, removed from painting and now stored in object file.illegible, lower left, Letters from the dealers and the permanent collection worksheet done in 6/78 claim that it is signed, but it is very difficult to read now.
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