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| Title | Still Life | |
| Original Translation | Nature Morte | |
| Collection | Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Ribot, Augustin Théodule (French painter and printmaker, 1823-1891) Previously attributed to Ribot, Germain Theodore (French, 1893-) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1858 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1870 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Théodule-Augustin Ribot trained himself as an artist whilst working as a book-keeper near Rouen. Born in 1823, it was not until the late 1850s that he begain producing his own paintings for sale, concentrating mainly on still lives, painted by lamplight in the evenings. Rejected by the Salon of 1859, alongside artists such as Alphonse Legros, James McNeil Whistler and Henri Fantin-Latour, Ribot and his friends began to exhibit in the studio of their contemporary, François Bonvin. In 1861 he was finally accepted by the Salon, where he exhibited paintings of cooks, later in life turning to more pious and religious subject matter. During the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, Ribot's studio was invaded, and many of his works destroyed. He painted little after the late 1870s when his health began to fail him. The Berwick work is painted in a loose manner, more characteristic of Ribot's later works than his early days as a painter. | |
| Current Accession Number | BERMG:1460 | |
| Inscription | front lr 'T. Ribot' | |
| Subject | still life (meat, fish, figs) | |
| Measurements | 34.1 x 46.5 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Sir William and Lady Burrell 1949. | |
| Publications | Denney, C., 'Exhibitions in Artists' Studios: François Bonvin's 1859 Salon des Refusés', Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol. 122, September 1993. | |
| Notes | Labels verso 'No.3 11 PICT'; '5. Still life - Roast Beef, Kidney, etc (oil) Théodule Ridot'; 'Ribot, Augustin, T. (1823 -1891) French School Still life, Roast Beef, Kidneys'; stamped on back: '?52 R? L?' The work is recorded in Burrell's purchase books for 1948 in the list of paintings destined for Berwick, as costing £300.0.0, but no other information is given. There has been some confusion in recent years over the painter of this work - Théodule Augustin or Germain Theodore Ribot, also a nineteenth-century painter of similar subject matter. However, the signature of the Berwick work, when compared with others, unequivacably shows that is by the former. | |
| Rights Owner | Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel | |