TitleThe Fair Penitent
Artist
Louis Lang
(1814 - 1893)
Date1857
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 40 × 32 in.
SignedSigned ***:***
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number1501-P
Label TextThe title of this painting was taken from that of a play by Nicholas Rowe, which had had a major revival during the mid-nineteenth century. The subject became a popular theme among genre painters of the nineteenth century.
