Shelling Beans, Argentelle
Clearly attempting to create in photography the type of genre scene he admired in seventeenth-century Dutch painting and its early nineteenth-century French revival, the wealthy baron and gentleman farmer Humbert de Molard posed his caretaker Louis Dodier (standing in elegant contrapposto, wearing wooden clogs) and other workers in a tableau of rural activity at his château at Argentelle, in Normandy.
Artwork Details
- Title: Shelling Beans, Argentelle
- Artist: Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard (French, Paris 1800–1874)
- Date: 1851
- Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
- Dimensions: Image: 22.3 x 17.7 cm (8 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Gift, 2005
- Object Number: 2005.100.263
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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