dinsdag 21 augustus 2018

La Moisson Graanoogst (2)


Le repos des moissonneurs (tekening):






Thema uit de schilderkunst



zie Bruegel: De oogst

In La Moisson (The Harvest, cat. no. 21) Death and the Kaiser look on approvingly at the good labor of the grim reaper. Exquisitely cynical, Death chews on a shaft of wheat whose fecund head, silhouetted against the burning sun, offers the promise of future harvests. The outsized face that stares out from the dark of the windmill seems to be a direct quotation from Bruegel's Dulle Griet (Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Berghe), but it is probably just the remains of an abandoned composition. 


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Daumier

Honoré Daumier, Het drama (ca 1860) (oil on canvas)