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Summers in the Country: Giverny |
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Willard Metcalf (1858–1925)
The Ten-Cent Breakfast, 1887
Oil on canvas; 15 1/4 x 22 in. (38.7 x 55.9)
Denver Art Museum, Gift of T. Edward & Tullah Hanley Collection
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Giverny's Hôtel Baudy, the American colony's headquarters, is the setting for Metcalf's somewhat mystifying conversation piece that is commonly thought to portray Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reading Le Petit Journal. Theodore Robinson is seated behind him; John H. Twachtman or Metcalf himself is the third man at the table; and the man lighting his pipe is unidentified. The academic style Metcalf enlisted here seems to suit the old-fashioned ambience of the hotel. Although the painting's title—inscribed on the reverse by someone other than Metcalf—refers to a cheap breakfast, the objects on the table imply a late night.
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