Mound of Butter
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Washington D.C. |
Mound of Butter is a
Painter
Throughout his career, Vollon was best known as a painter of
Alexandre Dumas, fils and fellow American painter William Merritt Chase, for example, collected his various artworks.[3]
Vollon was a member of the
French painters like Charles-François Daubigny, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Henri Fantin-Latour and Eugène Boudin, but Vollon is not quite as celebrated or remembered today as his other French Realist colleagues such as Corot and Fantin-Latour.[3]
Painting
The painting is a great example of Vollon's
cows commonly eat on barn fields
). At the time when Antoine Vollon lived, it was usual to purchase the butter from the farmer, handmade.
Typically, after milking, the cream is to be collected,
storage life. Back then, butter was usually stored wrapped in a cheesecloth, in a cool place. In the painting, the butter mound's cloth is falling loosely over a couple of eggs beside it.[3][4][5]
The painting also has thick marks layered on top of the artist's
food preparation, and depiction of everyday objects were a usual subject for still lifes in Vollon's time.[5][4]
References
- ^ Gallagher, Lauren (3 April 2014). "Impressionism masters shine in intimate setting at The Legion of Honor". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ "Washington's Crown Jewel". www.nytimes.com. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ^ a b c "Antoine Vollon : A Painter's Painter". www.wildenstein.com. Archived from the original on 24 December 2014.
- ^ PMID 25423202.
- ^ a b "Art in Review; Antoine Vollon". The New York Times. 24 December 2004. Retrieved 23 July 2015.