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Title
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The Cold Dead Year
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Actual Title
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Returning Home (alt)
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Artist
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Josef Israels
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Type
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Oil on canvas
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Size (HxW, mm)
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450 x 580
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Lent By
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Humphrey Roberts, Esq.
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Catalog Number
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22
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Catalog Page
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4
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Catalog Description
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The grass is poor and the sky dull and heavy with coming rain, and there would be nothing to break the sadness of the picture if it were not that the boy's face is thoughtful and suggests that he can see above "the dull flats of earth" to the ;ine of blue sky in the distance. // The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, / The abre boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying,/ And the year / On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, / Is lying. / Come months, come away,/ From november to May,/ In your saddest array;/ Follow the bier/ Of the dead cold year,/ And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre.--(P. B. Shelley).
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Curators Notes
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Similar painting: "Returning Home" from Rikjsmuseum, SK-A-2923, 1860-1911
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Alt-Text
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A man and woman walk side by side along a tree-lined path with a field in the background, carrying baskets. The scene is set at dusk with soft, muted colors and a calm, rural atmosphere.
