#work table

[huariqueje]

The Table  - Raphaël Renaud , 2023.

French , b. 1974 -

Oil on wood panel , 30 x 30 cm.

[lhedoniste]

[thevisualvamp]

Werk

[portrait-paintings]

Emile Zola

Artist: Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Description

On the wall is a reproduction of Manet's Olympia, a painting which sparked a fierce scandal at the 1865 Salon but which Zola held to be Manet's best work. Behind it is an engraving from Velazquez's Bacchus indicating the taste for Spanish art shared by the painter and the writer. A Japanese print of a wrestler by Utagawa Kuniaki II completes the décor. The Far East, which revolutionized ideas on perspective and colour in European painting, played a central role in the advent of the new style of painting. A Japanese screen on the left of the picture recalls this.

Zola is seated at his work table. He is holding a book, probably Charles Blanc's L'Histoire des peintres frequently consulted by Manet. An inkwell and a quill on the desk symbolize the writer's occupation.

[artschoolglasses]

Work Table Mounted with Wedgwood Cameos, Adam Weisweiler, French, 1786-90

From The Wallace Collection

[kristabella]

Womens papier-mache work table made in England

This lady's work table, in black japanned (varnished) papier-mache and profusely inlaid with mother-of-pearl, was made in England in about 1850. Fitted with a writing slope, games board and sewing accessories compartment, this compact table was designed to meet the Victorian lady's 'feminine pursuits'. It is made of papier-mache, a popular material for household goods and furniture in the mid-1800s, and one that was well suited to the extravagant scrolls and decoration of the fashionable Rococo revival style.

By the 1830s, Rococo revival became the latest style in the decorative arts made for the elite of France and Britain. It was sparked by the interest of artists and collectors in French Rococo paintings and furniture from the eighteenth century and stimulated by reprints of Rococo pattern books. Rococo seduced the public with comfortable furnishings and 'old French' splendour, becoming the dominant style throughout Europe by the mid nineteenth century.

Often combined with Naturalism, another popular decorative style of the period which delighted in the depiction of lifelike forms and objects, Rococo revival dominated London's 1851 Great Exhibition and shaped the character of mid-century interiors.

[vintagehomecollection]

Contemporary Apartments, 1982

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