In 1882 Théo Van Rysselberghe won a travel scholarship, which enabled him to travel to Spain together with Constantin Meunier, Dario de Regoyos and Frantz Charlet. He decided to travel on to Morocco, in the footsteps of his tutor, Jean Portaels, looking for exotic designs and inspirational impressions. In Morocco, Van Rysselberghe mainly derived his inspiration from everyday street scenes. He processed them using a strong colour palette and an eye for careful light management. In doing so the artist used his palette knife to ‘construct’ his work on the basis of almost geometric spaces.
| Artist |
Théo Van Rysselberghe
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VIAF
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| Title | Butchery in Tanger |
| Date | 1882 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Tangier TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signature, inscription and year bottom right: Théo van Rysselberghe / Tanger 82 |
| signature, inscription and year on the back of the canvas: THEO VAN RYSSELBERGHE/1882/Tanger/Boucherie | |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1942-T |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1942 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1942-T |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1547/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015571
cityscapes (representations)
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300236227 townscapes (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A235
sitting figure
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31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 32B32 Africans Iconclass 32B32(MOROCCAN) Africans (MOROCCAN) Iconclass 41A775 wooden container: barrel, cask Iconclass 46B11 market Iconclass 46B111 stall, booth (~ market) Iconclass 46B42 examining merchandise Iconclass 46C13142 ass, donkey Iconclass 47B1814 butcher, slaughterman Iconclass 47B1814(+3) butcher, slaughterman (+ technical aspects ~ crafts, industries, agriculture) Iconclass 61D(MOROCCO) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (MOROCCO) Iconclass 61E(TANGER) names of cities and villages (TANGER) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Impressionist (style)
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exotism Orientalism AAT |
| De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 101, 217 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 282-283 (ill.)) |
| onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 150, cat. 146 (ill.)) |
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