Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum is home to multiple paintings including Charles Christian Nahl And A little Child Shall Lead them and his The Love Chase . The date And A Little Child Shall Lead Them is unfortunately unknown. And A Little Child Shall Lead Them painting is approximately 3’x3’. The Love Chase is a five-part series that consists of two 6’ x 5’ and three 3’x4’ paintings. The paintings are dated in 1869. And A little Child Shall Lead Them and The Love Chase are both oil-on-canvases completed during the nineteenth-century in Sacramento, California. Although, And A little Child Shall Lead Them appears to be done in the Romantic style, it incorporates Neoclassical through subject matter. The Love Chase also incorporates
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Each individual painting is a scene in a story of a man trying to woo the Sheik's daughter. The plaque states that the painting the Sheik provided his daughter with a fast horse and the admirer with a slower horse. The suitor than proceeds to chase after his love-interest. This is the scene depicted in in the first painting. The determined admirer is posed on top of a brown horse with his horse’s whip in mid-lash. His love interests depicted pulling the reins of a galloping white horse, whose eyes and mouth are open wide. The second painting features the Middle-Eastern princess galloping past what appears to be a British general. In this scene the princess’s skirt is down, hiding her red bloomers which appeared in the first painting. The admirer is nowhere to be scene and the giddy expression on her dust-rotten pony’s face is gone. In the third painting, the suitor has the flustered princess sitting on his shoulder. He has finally caught her. The fearless admirers stands in a statuesque manor stair step wielding his sword. The fourth painting the suitor is hovering over the princess is gentle, yet overbearing manner. The frightened princess is situated on the edge of the extravagant daybed as a stream of sunlight pours through the open window strategically position in a way that highlights the warrior. It seems that the princess has escaped in the fifth picture of the series. She is now out …show more content…
The Love Chase is arguably the most notable collections at the Crocker Art Museum. The grand display dominates a whole wall. The color palette is completely different the usual swarthy choice-hues of the nineteenth century. Both of Nahl’s paintings seem to sparkle; the texture of the dried paint is shiny and practically glistens under the dim light of the display room. Nahl’s two paintings are two visually interesting truly masterpieces. This interest can be credited to Nahl strategic use of design
Each individual painting is a scene in a story of a man trying to woo the Sheik's daughter. The plaque states that the painting the Sheik provided his daughter with a fast horse and the admirer with a slower horse. The suitor than proceeds to chase after his love-interest. This is the scene depicted in in the first painting. The determined admirer is posed on top of a brown horse with his horse’s whip in mid-lash. His love interests depicted pulling the reins of a galloping white horse, whose eyes and mouth are open wide. The second painting features the Middle-Eastern princess galloping past what appears to be a British general. In this scene the princess’s skirt is down, hiding her red bloomers which appeared in the first painting. The admirer is nowhere to be scene and the giddy expression on her dust-rotten pony’s face is gone. In the third painting, the suitor has the flustered princess sitting on his shoulder. He has finally caught her. The fearless admirers stands in a statuesque manor stair step wielding his sword. The fourth painting the suitor is hovering over the princess is gentle, yet overbearing manner. The frightened princess is situated on the edge of the extravagant daybed as a stream of sunlight pours through the open window strategically position in a way that highlights the warrior. It seems that the princess has escaped in the fifth picture of the series. She is now out …show more content…
The Love Chase is arguably the most notable collections at the Crocker Art Museum. The grand display dominates a whole wall. The color palette is completely different the usual swarthy choice-hues of the nineteenth century. Both of Nahl’s paintings seem to sparkle; the texture of the dried paint is shiny and practically glistens under the dim light of the display room. Nahl’s two paintings are two visually interesting truly masterpieces. This interest can be credited to Nahl strategic use of design