Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Henry Tate Collection
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>
Sympathy
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1897
actions: postures and motions
animals: mammals
architecture
carpet
children
contemplation
dog - non-specific
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
furnishings
girl
hallway
individuals: female
interiors
named individuals
objects
panelling
people
portraits
Rivière, Millicent
sitting
stair / step
<p>Riviere achieved immense popularity with the Victorian public for his anecdotal and often humourous pictures of animals. 'Sympathy', showing a little girl sent in disgrace to sit on the stairs while being conforted by her dog, was among the most popular of all. The first version was shown at the Royal Academy in 1878, but the picture exhibited here is a study Riviere made for a second version.Always a supreme technician in his pictures, Riviere also painted historical subjects and portraits, but it was always his animal scenes to which the public most warmly responded.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 February 2005 – 2 May 2005
2005-05-02
4 February 2005 – 2 May 2005
2005-05-02
2005-02-04
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2005-02-04
Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
Exhibition
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
2012-05-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-05-19
Victorian Sentimentality
Collection based display
23 November 2018 – 31 May 2019
2019-05-31
23 November 2018 – 31 May 2019
2019-05-31
2018-11-23
Guildhall Art Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.guildhall-art-gallery.org.uk
2018-11-23
Children in Art
Loan-out
Sympathy
support: 451 × 375 mm
frame: 748 × 668 × 123 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1897
<p>Riviere achieved immense popularity with the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/victorian" title="Glossary definition for 'Victorian'"><span>Victorian</span></a> public for his anecdotal and often humourous pictures of animals. 'Sympathy', showing a little girl sent in disgrace to sit on the stairs while being conforted by her dog, was among the most popular of all. The first version was shown at the Royal Academy in 1878, but the picture exhibited here is a study Riviere made for a second version.<br/>Always a supreme technician in his pictures, Riviere also painted historical subjects and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a>, but it was always his animal scenes to which the public most warmly responded.</p>
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actions: postures and motions animals: mammals architecture carpet children contemplation dog - non-specific domestic emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas features furnishings girl hallway individuals: female interiors named individuals objects panelling people portraits Rivière, Millicent sitting stair / step