The good story
- Title
- The good story
- Artist
- Dendy Sadler
- Artist Full Name
- Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923)
- Date (Painted or Exhibited)
- 1881
- Type
- Oil on canvas
- Size (HxW mm)
- support: 622 × 819 frame: 980 × 1083 × 150
- Current Location
- Tate, London, Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894: N01556
- Lent By
- Henry Tate, Esq.
- Catalog Number
- 106
- Catalog Page
- 16
- Catalog Description
- The tale has as many meanings as it has hearers. The monk who loves his ease finds something to make him laugh; the other finds something to make him sad.
- Alt-Text
- Three monks in brown and black robes sit and stand by a lit fireplace in a cozy, wood-paneled room. One monk is seated and relaxed, another stands beside him, and a third sits opposite, holding prayer beads.
- Image Credit
- Photo: © Tate, London