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Richard Redgrave, 1804–1888, British, The Deserter's Home, 1847
- Title:
The Deserter's Home [1847, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- 1847
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 x 40 1/4 inches (76.2 x 102.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower left: "Rich Redgrave 1847"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1984.20.2
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1984.20.2FR
- Subject Terms:
- animal | army | baskets | bonnet | bread | breeches | brother | child | coat | cottage | cravat | desertion | disguise | dishes | dog (animal) | door | dwelling | elderly | family | father | fear | fireplace | food | genre subject | gesture | hearth | hood (enclosing structure) | house | interior | kitchen | men | mess | mother | poke bonnet | pots | shepherd | silverware | sisters | soldiers | stairs | tablecloth | tankard | umbrella | uniform | waistcoat | window | women
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1247
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Wearing a smock frock to disguise his uniform, a deserter from the army panics as a boy warns him of the arrival of soldiers sent to arrest him. The gesturing figures of his relatives indicate the calamitous effects on the family of the deserter’s reluctance to do his duty. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1847, a reviewer for the Spectator thought the picture “should be hung up in every barrack: the worn and despairing aspect of the disguised man, who is told that the soldiers are coming, is enough to strike a chill into the heart of the hardiest rebel against military discipline.” As an ironic touch, a poster on the wall appeals for FINE YOUNG MEN to serve in the infantry in India. Richard Redgrave, however, may have been more sympathetic to the young man’s desire to return home than the reviewers. He once stated that his work was about “calling attention to the trials and struggles of the poor and oppressed.” Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Richard Redgrave, R.A. (1804-1888) (Yale Center for British Art, 1988-06-14 - 1988-08-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Richard Redgrave, R.A. (1804-1888) (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988-03-16 - 1988-05-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 182-183, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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