Falstaff at Herne's Oak, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act V, Scene v
Date:
1832
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
17 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (44.5 x 37.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown paint, lower left: "JStephanoff | 1832"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.5.16
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
obese | moon | literary theme | chain | antlers | castle | mistresses | mistresses | actors | wives | night | leisure | performance | courtship | punishment | oak | theater (discipline) | women | man | costume | torches | portrait | flag | landscape | The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare | ghost -- fiction
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Enterprise of Opera : Verdi - Boito - Ricordi (The Morgan Library & Museum, 2019-09-06 - 2020-01-05)Shakespeare on Canvas (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-01-02 - 2012-06-30)British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04)Shakespeare and British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-04-23 - 1981-07-05)
Publications:
Geoffrey Ashton, Shakespeare and British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 51, 120, no. 152, PR2933 Y25 A74 c.1 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 212-213, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Patricia Crown, British comic art, 1730-1830, from the Yale Center for British Art, Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, 1988, p. 29, NC1477 G63 C76 (YCBA)