Scene from Ossian’s "Fingal": Lamderg and Gelchossa
Artist: John Trumbull (American, 1756-1843)
Date: 1792
Dimensions:
Frame: 18 1/2 × 20 5/8 × 2 1/2 in. (47 × 52.4 × 6.4 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 1958.27
Label Text:The Scottish warrior Lamderg has just rescued his wife Gelchossa from the giant Ullin. As he leans heavily against her, she asks, “What blood, my Love…runs down my warrior’s side?” Though he claims it is Ullin’s blood, Lamderg soon dies from his wound.
John Trumbull, who had been a military aid to George Washington during the Revolutionary War and later painted his portrait along with several other founding fathers, painted this work in Connecticut. He used as his source the wildly popular epic Fingal, “discovered” in 1762. It was supposedly written by a 3rd-century Scottish bard named Ossian, but was discovered to be the creation of 18th-century Scottish writer and historian James MacPherson.
John Trumbull, who had been a military aid to George Washington during the Revolutionary War and later painted his portrait along with several other founding fathers, painted this work in Connecticut. He used as his source the wildly popular epic Fingal, “discovered” in 1762. It was supposedly written by a 3rd-century Scottish bard named Ossian, but was discovered to be the creation of 18th-century Scottish writer and historian James MacPherson.
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