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The Young Cook
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Ribot was a naturalist painter who specialized in domestic genre scenes and religious works. In this small painting, a butcher boy tempts a cat with a slice of meat. This work typifies the kitchen scenes that Ribot began to produce in the late 1850s. He often painted at night by candlelight, a fact that might have contributed to the limited range of colors and dramatic contrasts of light and shadow in his works. Like so many of his colleagues at this time, Ribot was influenced by Dutch, Spanish, and French 17th-century paintings in the Louvre Museum.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
P. A. Cheramy Sale, Paris, May 6-7, 1908, no. 231; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 10/6/1966 | Treatment | loss compensation; coated |
| 5/2/1988 | Treatment | cleaned; coated; other |
| 4/1/2002 | Treatment | other |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 13 3/4 x W: 10 13/16 in. (35 x 27.5 cm); Frame H: 22 1/16 x W: 19 5/16 in. (56 x 49 cm); Stretcher H: 13 3/4 x W: 10 5/8 in. (34.93 x 26.99 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1908
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.3