Alphonse LegrosFrankrijk, 1837–1911The Tinker
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About the painting
The Tinker is an 1874 genre painting by the French artist Alphonse Legros. It depicts a tinker in the French countryside mending a cauldron with copper cooking pots lying nearby. Legros grew up in France and made his debut at the Salon of 1857, but settled in Britain in 1863.
The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1874 at Burlington House in London's Piccadilly. It also featured at the Salon of 1875 in Paris and the 1877 exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery. It was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington by Constantine Alexander Ionides in 1901.
In the museum's words
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) was born in Dijon where he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts before attending the ‘Petite Ecole’ of Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1802-1897) in Paris and then Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He started exhibited at the Salon in 1857. In 1863, Legros visited London where he found admirers and patrons, notably the Ionides family, and was ardently promoted by the brothers Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti. An etcher, a painter and a sculptor, he succeeded Edward John Poynter (1836-1919) at the Slade School in 1876 and was naturalized as a British citizen in 1880.
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This work is a fine example of Legros’ genre paintings of the 1870s. It depicts a French tinker repairing one of his cauldrons in an open landscape. The subdued palette and earthen tones dominated by blue and green hues as well as the subject matter are indebted to the French Realist movement and in particular to the art of Jean-François Millet (1814-1875).Legros’ genre scenes were particularly praised at the time by British collectors with at the front line C. A. Ionides who purchased many of his works.
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- CAI.24
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