Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alphonse-legros-341" aria-label="More by Alphonse Legros" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Alphonse Legros</a>
Rehearsing Service
Bequeathed by Rev. A. Stopford Brooke 1916
actions: postures and motions
adults
book - non-specific
church
clergyman
dress: ceremonial/royal
fine arts and music
instrument, organ
interiors
leisure and pastimes
man
man, old
music
music and entertainment
objects
people
reading, writing, printed matter
religious
religious
sitting
society
vestments
work and occupations
<p>The French realist painter Legros moved to London in 1863, and from then exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. In the late 1860s, he came to admire Ingres and the Italian old masters, and emphasised outline and local colour in his paintings. He favoured church subjects, treating them as motifs of daily life. The priest at the right was painted from the famous Italian model Alessandro di Marco, who also posed for Burne-Jones, Leighton and others. The head of a choirboy between the two men was painted out by the artist, but now shows through.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 November 2012 – 20 July 2014
2014-07-20
5 November 2012 – 20 July 2014
2014-07-20
2012-11-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-05
Gallery 9
Collection based display
7 August 2014 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
7 August 2014
2014-08-07
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-08-07
Gallery 9
Collection based display
Rehearsing the Service
support: 914 × 1168 mm
frame: 1127 × 1458 × 136 mm
Bequeathed by Rev. A. Stopford Brooke 1916
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<p>The French realist painter Legros moved to London in 1863, and from then exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. In the late 1860s, he came to admire Ingres and the Italian old masters, and emphasised outline and local colour in his paintings. He favoured church subjects, treating them as motifs of daily life. The priest at the right was painted from the famous Italian model Alessandro di Marco, who also posed for Burne-Jones, Leighton and others. The head of a choirboy between the two men was painted out by the artist, but now shows through.</p>
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