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The Faïence Restorer

1848
Not on view
Salières, who studied with the academic painter Paul Delaroche, made his exhibition debut at the Paris Salon of 1847 and showed this painting there the following year; it retains its original frame. This is ostensibly an unassuming scene of everyday life in the artist's native Languedoc region. But for many mid-nineteenth century viewers it would have evoked La cruche cassée (The Broken Pitcher), the iconic painting of lost innocence by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), then as now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Faïence Restorer
  • Artist: Paul-Narcisse Salières (French, Carcassonne 1818–1908 Marseilles)
  • Date: 1848
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 23 3/8 x 25 in. (59.4 x 63.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
  • Object Number: 2003.42.51
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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