Prisioneiros do fronte

Winslow Homer American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 762

Como um correspondente-artista da revista Weekly Harper, Homer havia visitado duas vezes a frente unionista durante a guerra civil. Nesta tela, pintado após o fim da guerra, o Brigadeiro General Francis Channing Barlow captura soldados e oficiais confederados na Batalha de Spotsylvania (Virgínia) em maio de 1864. Homer tipifica os combatentes de ambos os lados e cria distâncias entre as figuras representadas em posições contrastantes, expressando simbolicamente a ruptura ideológica entre norte e sul. O quadro estabeleceu a reputação do pintor na Academia Nacional de Desenho em Nova Iorque e foi exposto com grande êxito na Exposição Universal de Paris, em 1867.

Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine), Oil on canvas, American

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Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine), Oil on canvas, American
Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine), Oil on canvas, American
Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine), Oil on canvas, American
Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine), Oil on canvas, American

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