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The Day before Parting

Movie: The Great Gatsby
Painting: The Day before Parting
Author: Jozef Israëls
About the film
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki, Jack Thompson
Actors in scene: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire
Country (movie): USA, Australia
Genres: melodrama
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writers: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Time of scene:
Release year: 2013
About the painting
Title: The Day before Parting
Author: Jozef Israëls
Date of creation: 1862
Style: Other
Size: medium
Artist's country: Netherlands
Room: salon
Room colors: multicolored
Theme:
Color:
Additional information:

Israëls has often been compared to Jean-François Millet. As artists, even more than as painters in the strict sense of the word, they both, in fact, saw in the life of the poor and humble a motive for expressing with peculiar intensity their wide human sympathy; but Millet was the poet of placid rural life, while in almost all Israëls’ pictures there is some piercing note of woe. Read more: on wikipedia .

The painting hangs in Gatsby palace in room between other paintings. We can see the room when Gatsby is talking to Nick Carraway about his real past.