Art Institute of Chicago
The Evening Prayer
Jean-Baptiste Mallet
- Date
- 1790
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on card
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Baptiste Mallet was a painter and printmaker who specialized in small, elegant gouaches (opaque watercolors) of enigmatic subjects, such as this. Arranged like an implausible stage set, a monk-like character and an old man wearing a Phrygian cap appear to reprimand a largely female family who must have fallen on tough times, given that their handsome carpet and ornamental birdcage decorate a rusticated farm building.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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