The Cider Jug
Léon-Augustin Lhermitte French
Not on view
Lhermitte’s Realist art was greatly influenced by seventeenth-century Dutch genre scenes that exalted the humble lives and simple pleasures of peasants. In 1874 the artist traveled through Brittany, in northwestern France, recording the lives of rural workers while paying particular attention to their regional customs and dress. Cider is the preferred Breton beverage, and here we see an old peasant woman seated at a simple wood table, her hands folded reverentially as she stares at the jug of cider (perhaps already empty) in front of her.
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