Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-herbert-la-thangue-331" aria-label="More by Henry Herbert La Thangue" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Herbert La Thangue</a>
Man with Scythe
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1896
adults
agriculture and fishing
architecture
birth to death
birth to death
chair
children
cottage
death
death - reaper
family
furnishings
garden
garden structures
gate
girl
harvesting
man
mother and child
objects
people
pillow
residential
society
symbols and personifications
townscapes / man-made features
woman
work and occupations
<p>La Thangue was well-known for his realist rustic scenes. Here, uncharacteristically, he introduces a symbolic dimension to his work. A mother discovers that her young daughter has died, presumably after an illness. At the same moment, a man arrives at the gate carrying a scythe, the traditional symbol of death, the ‘grim reaper’.This rather melodramatic treatment can be compared with the more grimly realistic picture of child death Hushed, by Frank Holl, also shown in this room.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
15 September 2001 – 11 November 2001
2001-11-11
15 September 2001 – 11 November 2001
2001-11-11
2001-09-15
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
2001-09-15
Henry Herbert La Thangue-Sussex Painter
Loan-out
8 October 2010 – 15 May 2011
2011-05-15
8 October 2010 – 23 January 2011
2011-01-23
2010-10-08
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
17 February 2011 – 15 May 2011
2011-05-15
2011-02-17
Ateneum Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland)
2010-10-08
Illusions of Reality. Naturalist painting, photography and cinema 1875-1918
Loan-out
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
The Man with the Scythe
support: 1676 × 1664 mm
frame: 1990 × 1975 × 165 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> 1896
<p>La Thangue was well-known for his realist rustic scenes. Here, uncharacteristically, he introduces a symbolic dimension to his work. A mother discovers that her young daughter has died, presumably after an illness. At the same moment, a man arrives at the gate carrying a scythe, the traditional symbol of death, the ‘grim reaper’.This rather melodramatic treatment can be compared with the more grimly realistic picture of child death Hushed, by Frank Holl, also shown in this room.</p>

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2007-07-10T00:00:00
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<p><b>N01605</b> THE MAN WITH THE SCYTHE <i>c.</i> 1896
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<br/>Inscr. ‘H. H. La Thangue.’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 66×65 1/2 (167·5×166·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1896.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1896 (195); <i>Late Members</i>, R.A., winter 1933 (205).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> E. T. Cook, <i>A Popular Handbook to the Tate Gallery</i>, 1898, p.223.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>The Nation's Pictures</i>, 1901, 1, No.46 (in colour); <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.69; Hesketh Hubbard, <i>A Hundred Years of British Painting 1851–1951</i>, 1951, pl.65.</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults agriculture and fishing architecture birth to death birth to death chair children cottage death death - reaper family furnishings garden garden structures gate girl harvesting man mother and child objects people pillow residential society symbols and personifications townscapes / man-made features woman work and occupations