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Autumnal garden scene, depicting four melancholy young girls mounding gathered leaves. The two older girls gaze directly at the viewer; they are dressed in identical, dark green dresses with their long hair loose; of this pair, the girl on the left holds a wicker basket from which the second girl removes leaves and adds them to the smouldering pile. To their right are the other two figures: standing in profile to the right with her head turned in three-quarter view is a girl with brilliant red hair, tied into a ponytail, wearing a rust-coloured garment and leaning on a rake, she gazes down at the mound of leaves; the fourth girl, the smallest of the group, stands at the right edge of the composition in three-quarter view to the left, wearing a purple dress with a red necktie, holding in her hand an apple and small posy of blue flowers.
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester
Title
Autumn Leaves
Date
1856
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 104.3 x W 74 cm
Accession number
1892.4
Acquisition method
purchased from James Leathart, 1892
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Signed, in monogram, and dated at right bottom corner: 18 JM 56
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester M2 3JL England
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