Room 2
A whole 19th-century painting tradition focused on the epic story of the peasant woman. The second chapter is dedicated to female reapers, gleaners, water carriers and washerwomen – robust, monumental women supporting the edifice of the family and society like caryatids. The rhetoric of these images is ambiguous: on the one hand they are a celebration of the working woman, while on the other, they exalt their servitude as some kind of natural, eternal destiny. Daughters of the Earth, earth-bound forever, those peasant-caryatids are heroines in chains.
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- Autor:
- Jules Breton
- Título:
- At the Fountain, 1892
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 68.5 cm
- Medidas:
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper Collection, Inv. no.: 55-78
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- Autor:
- Janine Antoni
- Título:
- Caryatid (Terra Cotta Amphora), 2003
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- Tipo:
- Photograph and broken vessel installation. Photograph: 231.1 x 74.9 cm.; Vessel: 48.3 x 40.6 x 35.6 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
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- Autor:
- Maruja Mallo
- Título:
- The Net, 1938
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 150 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Private Collection, courtesy Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid
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