Sunday, October 11, 2009

Victorian Nude

Frederick Goodall (1822-1904) was like Alma-Tadema an English Victorian painter. He was specialized in orientalist paintings but did also biblical and historical subjects. His Susanna here seems to me as a cheap excuse to paint and sell a nude in Victorian England.

Susanna (1886)
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2 comments:

  1. Thomas Haller BuchananOctober 11, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    Cheap or not, I'm glad he found an excuse.

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  2. JudyOctober 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    I like your blog a lot and found there a lot of better artwork about which many art historians would say that it's done by "mere illustrators".
    Goodall is believed to be an "real artist".
    And here I have a problem. He did a nice piece of work and nothing more.

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