A Visit from the Old Mistress

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A Visit from the Old Mistress
A meeting between four women; three freed slaves and their former mistress.
Artist Winslow Homer
Year 1876 (1876)
Type Oil on canvas
Condition On display
Location Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

A Visit from the Old Mistress is an 1876 painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It was one of several works that Homer created during a mid-1870s visit to Virginia, where he had served as a war correspondent during the Civil War.[1] Scholars have noted that the painting's composition is taken from Homer's earlier painting Prisoners from the Front, which depicts a group of captive confederate soldiers defiantly regarding a union officer.[2] It, along with Homer's other paintings of black southern life from this period, have been praised as an "invaluable record of an important segment of life in Virginia during the Reconstruction." [1]

External video
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video icon Podcast: The Civil War and American Art, Episode 5, Smithsonian American Art Museum[3]

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