Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Market at Chateau-Thierry

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Market at Chateau-Thierry
Alternate Title: 
Le marché de Château-Thierry
Image View: 
Overall view without frame
Creator: 
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (French painter, 1844-1925)
Location: 
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1998.60)
Location Note: 
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS: 
+40.416111-3.695
Date: 
1879 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
53.3 cm (height) x 67 cm (width)
Subjects: 
agriculture; business, commerce and trade; cityscape; genre; market day; vendors; farmers
Description: 
In 1888 Lhermitte made a series of illustrations for a book called La Vie Rustique, written by André Theuriet. In the introduction the author wrote: "We propose to trace the grand acts of the rustic drama: the soaring, the labour, the hay-making, the harvest, and the vintage; we wanted to describe the solitude of the farm, the business of the village life, the pleasures of Sunday, and the preoccupations of the weekdays [...]." Lhermitte's work is neither romanticized or revolutionary in its realism. He was invited to join the Impressionists by Degas, but refused. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-LHERMIT-TBM-TMCT-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.