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Et sardineri i Concarneau
Et sardineri i Concarneau is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Peder Severin Krøyer. It dates from 1890 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
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Subject & Meaning
The work focuses on a woman seated at a table, engaged in the preparation of Sardina pilchardus.
Peder Severin Krøyer's Et sardineri i Concarneau, dated 1890, is a genre scene depicting the daily labor of sardine processing in the French coastal town of Concarneau. The work focuses on a woman seated at a table, engaged in the preparation of Sardina pilchardus. By capturing this moment of industrial food production, the painting represents the intersection of local economic activity and human effort within a maritime setting, grounding the subject in the reality of nineteenth-century coastal life.
Technique & Style
Peder Severin Krøyer executed Et sardineri i Concarneau in 1890 using oil paint applied to a canvas support. The work measures 101.5 cm in height and 140.5 cm in width. As a genre scene, it depicts a woman at a table with Sardina pilchardus (sardines), reflecting the artist's engagement with everyday life within the interior of a sardine-processing setting at Concarneau.
History & Provenance
Peder Severin Krøyer created the oil-on-canvas painting Et sardineri i Concarneau in 1890. Measuring 101.5 by 140.5 cm, it is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, as part of the museum's permanent holdings. The available sources do not provide a specific inventory number, commission details, prior ownership chain, or exhibition history for the work.
Context
Krøyer's Et sardineri i Concarneau (1890) depicts a woman preparing sardines at a table, reflecting contemporary Danish genre-painting interests. The work is part of the Statens Museum for Kunst collection in Copenhagen and relates to Krøyer's association with the Skagen Painters and his focus on everyday coastal life. Specific contemporary critical commentary on the painting is not documented in the available sources.
Overview
Et sardineri i Concarneau, painted in 1890 by Danish artist Peder Severin Krøyer, is an oil on canvas genre work that captures a modest interior scene of fish processing. The composition is housed in the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains part of the museum’s collection of 19th‑century Scandinavian art.
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