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The Woodcutter's Breakfast (The Faggot Gatherer's Meal)

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0

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Date

c.1832-1834 (?)

Artist

William Henry Hunt (1790-1864)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339159

Description

Hunt's meticulous genre and still life subjects prefigure the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's emphasis on meticulous detail. This work displays the artist's mature mastery of watercolor, admiringly described by his pupil John Ruskin in "The Elements of Drawing" (1857). To create this image, Hunt stippled a white gouache ground using broken touches of watercolor and extensive passages of scraping to create bold effects of light and texture. His intense, realistic vision of British rural life focuses on an unadorned cottage interior where a humble figure rests on a bench. The distinct textures of the brick fireplace, rough flagstones, simple furniture, earthenware pot, iron kettle, and piled branches are all lovingly recorded. Medium: watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Hastings, East Sussex, England

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Cottages
Domestic Life
Interiors
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