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| Artist | Charles Landseer |
| Year | 1836 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 55.9 cm× 46.9 cm(22.0 in× 18.5 in) |
| Location | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Maria is an 1836 oil painting by the British artist Charles Landseer. [1] It is inspired by a passage in the 1768 novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by the Irish author Laurence Sterne. [2] It depicts Maria, a mournful young woman left disconsolate by her lover's desertion. She is accompanied by a small dog. [3]
The painting was displayed at the 1836 exhibition of the British Institution, held at Pall Mall. It was purchased by John Sheepshanks, a noted collector of contemporary British art, who in 1857 donated it to the new Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. [4]
