Afternoon Tea (Bracquemond) Explained

Afternoon Tea
Artist:Marie Bracquemond
Year:1880
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:81.5
Width Metric:61.5
Metric Unit:cm
Museum:Petit Palais
City:Paris

Afternoon Tea (French: Le goûter) is an 1880 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Marie Bracquemond. It is a portrait of the artist's half-sister Louise Quivoron, who often served as a model for her paintings, reading in a garden at Bracquemond's home in the Parisian suburb of Sèvres. The work was shown during an exhibition in 1919 and purchased by the French government from Bracquemond's son Pierre. It is now in the collection of the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.[1] [2] It is one of her few works held in a public collection.[3] The theme of the work reflects the intellectual activities of the lives of women, and can be compared to related works such as Mary Cassatt’s The Reader (1877) and Harriet Backer’s Evening (1890).[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Kane, Elizabeth (1984). "Marie Bracquemond." Woman's Art Journal. 5(2): 21-27.
  2. Becker, Jane R. (2017). "Marie Bracquemond, Impressionist Innovator: Escaping the Fury". In Laurence Madeline (ed.) Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900. Yale University Press. pp. 55-68, 243-244. .
  3. See the historical background entry for "Le goûter - Paris Musées Collections". Quote: "Le goûter" est une des rares oeuvres de Marie Bracquemond conservées dans une collection publique."
  4. Murray, Gale (Spring 2018). "Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism (Review)". Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. 17(1)1. pp. 5-7, 10.