The Hunt Breakfast (Courbet)
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Artist | Gustave Courbet |
Year | 1858 |
Type | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 207 cm × 325 cm (81 in × 128 in) |
Location | Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
The Hunt Breakfast is a large oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1858 by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet which is now in the collection of the Wallraf–Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany. It was painted in Germany during a long stay by the artist in Frankfurt and has probably never left the country.[1][2]
The picture depicts an al fresco meal by a deer hunting party and is an early example of the Realism genre of which Courbet was a pioneer. Realism demanded that such genuine events, as distinct from highly structured imaginary mythological or religious compositions, should be faithfully recorded, as it was in this case.
Seven years later Claude Monet would paint his masterpiece Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe, in which Courbet himself featured, on an even larger scale.
See also
- 100 Great Paintings
References
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- Le Désespéré (1843–1845)
- The Happy Lovers (1844)
- The Bacchante (1844–1847)
- Portrait of Charles Baudelaire (c. 1848)
- After Dinner at Ornans (1848–1849)
- The Stone Breakers (1849)
- A Burial at Ornans (1850)
- Young Ladies of the Village (1852)
- The Wrestlers (1853)
- The Bathers (1853)
- La rencontre (1854)
- The Wounded Man (1854)
- The Wheat Sifters (1854)
- The Seaside at Palavas (1854)
- The Painter's Studio (1855)
- Madame Auguste Cuoq (c. 1852–1857)
- Young Ladies Beside the Seine (Summer) (1857)
- The Quarry (1857)
- The Hunt Breakfast (1858)
- Deer by Water (1861)
- Femme nue couchée (1862)
- The Source (1862)
- The Source of the Loue (1863–1864)
- The Oak at Flagey (1864)
- Proudhon and His Children (1865)
- Portrait of Countess Karoly (1865)
- Le ruisseau noir (1865)
- The Fishing Boat (1865)
- L'Origine du monde (1866)
- Le Sommeil (1866)
- Woman with a Parrot (1866)
- Killing a Deer (1867)
- The Woman in the Waves (1868)
- Portrait of Paul Chenavard (1869)
- The Calm Sea (1869)
- Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman (1865–1866)
- The Wave (1869–1870)
- Still-Life with Fruit (1871–1872)
- Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Monet, 1865–1866)
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