After Dinner at Ornans

After Dinner at Ornans (French: L'Après-dînée à Ornans) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Realist artist Gustave Courbet, painted in winter 1848–1849 in Ornans. It is now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.[1] Its dimensions are 195 by 257 cm.

After Dinner at Ornans (1848–1849) by Gustave Courbet

It was the first of Courbet's imposing paintings of Ornans subjects; others include The Stone Breakers and A Burial at Ornans.[2] After Dinner at Ornans shows the influence of earlier French masters of genre painting such as Le Nain and Chardin.[3] Courbet exhibited it in the Salon of 1849, where it won a medal and was purchased by the state.[2]

One of the first major paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866), would pay homage to this work, showing the influence of Courbet on the early Renoir.[4]

References
  1. After Dinner at Ornans, Palais de Beaux-Arts de Lille (French)
  2. Faunce, Sarah; Nochlin, Linda (1988). Courbet Reconsidered. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum. p. 83. ISBN 0-300-04298-1.
  3. Masanès, Fabrice (2006) Courbet. Taschen. p. 31. ISBN 978-3-8228-5683-3
  4. Adams, Steven (1994). The Barbizon School & the Origins of Impressionism. Phaidon Press. pp. 202-209. ISBN 0-7148-2919-6. OCLC 34355336.
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