TitleThe Fainting Spell
Artist
Louis Lang
(1814 - 1893)
Date1860
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 10 × 8 in.
Framed: 16 3/4 × 14 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.
SignedSigned on lower right: "LANG"; on reverse: "The Fainting / Spell / L. Lang / 1860".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number731-P
Label TextLang was particularly known for his paintings of woman and children. "The Fainting Spell" is typical of his oeuvre. Lang's depiction of a listless young woman in this composition adopts the popular Victorian theme of feminine vulnerability and underscores the sentimentalism found in James A. Suydam's genre painting collection, which he bequeathed to The National Academy.
