1860
oil
canvas
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Monsieur Jourdain Receiving His Guests (from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme') is a 1860 oil by William Powell Frith, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting depicts a scene from Molière's 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'. In the foreground, a man in a red coat is bowing to a woman in a white dress and a man in a yellow coat. The woman holds the man's hand, and a black dog sits beside her. The background features a stone floor and a wall with a doorway, as well as a table with people sitting at it. The scene is set in a courtyard, with a blue sky visible in the distance. The painting is done in oil and features a range of colors, from the bright red of the man's coat to the soft white of the woman's dress. To learn more about the artist behind this work, look up William Powell Frith.
William Powell Frith was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era.
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