In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade
Oil on canvas painting by Walter Osborne / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade is an oil on canvas painting by the Irish artist Walter Osborne, completed c. 1895, and housed in the National Gallery of Ireland. The work is renowned for both its harrowing depiction of Dublin's poor at the turn of the 20th century, and its detailing of the effects of light and shadow, and evidences the artist's learning from the French Impressionists.[1]
It was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1895, and was one of Osborne's early commercially successful paintings,[2] and established him as one of Ireland's most important 19th century painters.[3]