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BibliographyWeidner, Ruth Irwin, George Cochran Lambdin ( exh. cat. Chadds Ford, PN: Brandywine River Museum, 1986), p. 8, cat. no. 32, ill.
Artist
George C. Lambdin
(1830 - 1896)
Music and Refreshments
Date1875
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 27 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (69.9 × 85.1 × 9.5 cm)
Object numberN0414.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextLambdin, a great favorite in his own day, pleased Victorian audiences with the diversity of his subject matter. His work included studies of young women, Civil War subjects, and still life paintings in addition to genre. As a sentimental painter, Lambdin's genre scenes were anecdotal but included few expressive gestures. Music and Refreshments is one such example where mood substitutes for action. Lambdin described his artistic inclination toward those things refined and delicate by stating, “An object is picturesque when it is beautiful.”BibliographyWeidner, Ruth Irwin, George Cochran Lambdin ( exh. cat. Chadds Ford, PN: Brandywine River Museum, 1986), p. 8, cat. no. 32, ill.
On View
On viewc. 1890-1905
c. 1900
