1864
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Flemish Kitchen Garden: La Coupeuse de Choux is a 1864 oil by Henri de Braekeleer, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a woman in a garden cutting cabbage leaves. The light falls just right. A wheelbarrow and tools sit nearby. Everything looks quiet, like an early morning. Henri often painted everyday scenes like this. He trained with his father and uncle. Both were painters too. This scene feels simple but carefully made. Now go look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In a garden with flowering plants and fruit trees, a young woman leans over a row of cabbages. Behind her, houses with brick-red roofs are visible. The work exemplifies Henri de Braekeleer’s focus on humble subjects rendered with realistic detail and a restrained yet bright color palette. It reflects the Belgian school’s development of a new realism in genre painting during the 19th century.
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Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer (11 June 1840 – 20 July 1888) was a Belgian painter.
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