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Joseph Malachy Kavanagh , Irish, 1856-1918

Title

The Hôtel Beaumanoir's Portal, Dinan

Date1883

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions

56 x 38 cm

Signedlower left: Kavanagh 1883

Credit LinePurchased, 1950

Object numberNGI.1194

ProvenancePurchased, Dawson Gallery, Dublin, 1950 Exhibition HistoryRoyal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1884

The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium, 1850-1914, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 9 October - 18 November 1984; Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1 February - 10 March 1985

Peintres Irlandais en Bretange, Musée Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven, 26 June - 27 September 1999

Label TextKavanagh studied alongside Nathaniel Hill and Walter Osborne in Dublin before moving on with them to the Académie Royale des Beaux Arts in Antwerp, and in turn to Brittany. This painting of the fifteenth-century gate of the Hôtel Beaumanoir in Dinan is strikingly similar to a study Osborne made on the same visit in 1883. Kavanagh’s paintings often resembled Osborne’s, though his palette was darker, with more pronounced shadows, and his drawing slightly less refined. He included the motif of a single figure with a walking stick and satchel in several paintings.