Afternoon Tea (Bracquemond)

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]

Afternoon Tea
ArtistMarie Bracquemond
Year1880
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions81.5 cm × 61.5 cm (32.1 in × 24.2 in)
LocationPetit Palais, Paris

Study
  • Study for Afternoon Tea
    Study for Afternoon Tea

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. ISBN 978-030-022393-4.
  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.
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