Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/briton-riviere-453" aria-label="More by Briton Riviere" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Briton Riviere</a>
Beyond Mans Footsteps
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1894
animals: mammals
Arctic Circle
cave
countries and continents
ice
landscape
places
polar bear
sunset
times of the day
weather
<p>This dramatic icy landscape represents the Arctic as a place of extreme and sublime beauty. Humans are nowhere to be seen and the polar bear reigns. Animal painter Briton Rivière painted the scene from his imagination based on written accounts of Arctic explorers, with the bear itself drawn from one in London Zoo. Rivière was interested in his friend Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution and the relationship of animals to humans.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
12 May 2011 – 8 November 2011
2011-11-08
12 May 2011 – 8 November 2011
2011-11-08
2011-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-05-12
Riviere in Focus
Collection based display
1 November 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
1 November 2018 – 3 February 2019
2019-02-03
2018-11-01
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)
http://www.schirn.de
2018-11-01
Wilderness
Loan-out
9 November 2020 – 18 July 2021
2021-07-18
9 November 2020 – 18 July 2021
2021-07-18
2020-11-09
Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)
2020-11-09
The Origins. The rise and fall of Nature at the age of Darwin
Loan-out
Beyond Man’s Footsteps
support: 1190 × 1845 mm
frame: 1590 × 2255 × 150 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1894
<div><p><span>This dramatic icy landscape represents the Arctic as a place of extreme and sublime beauty. Humans are nowhere to be seen and the polar bear reigns. Animal painter Briton Rivière painted the scene from his imagination based on written accounts of Arctic explorers, with the bear itself drawn from one in London Zoo. Rivière was interested in his friend Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution and the relationship of animals to humans.</span></p></div>
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2024-04-22T00:00:00
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animals: mammals Arctic Circle cave countries and continents ice landscape places polar bear sunset times of the day weather