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A Flemish kitchen garden: la coupeuse de choux

Etching
ca. 1864 (etched)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The Antwerp painter and etcher Henri de Braekeleer belonged to a family of artists. Influenced by 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, he specialised in humble scenes of everyday life, as here, where a woman in peasant dress bends over to cut a cabbage. Ionides also owned De Braekeleer's oil painting of this subject, which is also in the V&A (CAI.88)

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleA Flemish kitchen garden: la coupeuse de choux
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Henri de Braekeleer, 'A Flemish kitchen garden: la coupeuse de choux', ca.1864, etching
Physical description
Etching
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.6cm
  • Width: 17.2cm
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides
Object history
Bequeathed by C.A. Ionides, 1900
Subjects depicted
Summary
The Antwerp painter and etcher Henri de Braekeleer belonged to a family of artists. Influenced by 17th-century Dutch genre paintings, he specialised in humble scenes of everyday life, as here, where a woman in peasant dress bends over to cut a cabbage. Ionides also owned De Braekeleer's oil painting of this subject, which is also in the V&A (CAI.88)
Associated object
CAI.88 (Source)
Collection
Accession number
CAI.566

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Record createdApril 1, 2008
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