Sujet

Interior with Old Woman and Boy, 1862. Creator: Paul Constant Soyer.

Légende

Interior with Old Woman and Boy, 1862. Rather than recording the quaint, but impoverished circumstances of the Écouen villagers, Soyer records a scene of happy domesticity. A young child gazes inquisitively at his grandmother, who has fallen asleep with her glasses in her lap. Beside her is a cat lapping its food. On the floor are potential threats to this tranquil scene-a toy drum and drumsticks. A vase of flowers on the mantel adds a cheerful note to the rustically, but adequately furnished room.

Date

1862

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B22_093

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,2Mo (2,2Mo) / 31,8cm x 42,0cm / 3750 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe portrait animal women woman people boy boys child children interior pet animals cat cats family sitting arts class country French France art sleep sleeping feline continent museum European color rustic location century inside asleep grandmother furniture grandchildren grandchild concept seated B&W old woman family life felines Colour footstool 19th century elderly woman Indoors black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century rural genre scene rural life social class portrait Regionalism Walters Art Museum Heritage Art Paul Constant Soyer Soyer Paul Constant 19th-century ink washes heightened with white gouache on cream moderately-thick slightly textured wove paper