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Calf's Head and Ox Tongue
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)LinkedCulture matchlcp-032ad641afae
- Date
- c. 1882
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 154121
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Gustave Caillebotte may have been inspired by the butcher’s shop below his family home in Paris when he painted this bloody scene of animal parts ready for human consumption. Calf’s Head and Ox Tongue confronts viewers with objects that are visually unpleasant and yet rendered with highly decorative pastel colors and soft brushstrokes. Such still lifes are among Caillebotte’s most original compositions and stand in contrast to the attractive, highly marketable still lifes of his contemporaries Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir .
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- Credit line
- Major Acquisitions Centennial Endowment
- Provenance
- The artist (died 1894); by descent to the artist’s family, 1894 [per Berhaut 1994, p. 165, cat. 244 (ill.)]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, though Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, 1999.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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