Jenny Montigny had a predilection for painting everyday rural and village scenes in Sint-Martens-Latem. As we see in The Gardener, these snapshot depictions do not reveal poor conditions or the hard life of the labourer. On the contrary, Montigny always paints a harmonious social scene. The subject almost appears to be an excuse for the painting itself and for her attempt to capture the intensity of light on the canvas. The monumental format of The Gardener is unusual in her oeuvre. The horizon is placed fairly high so that two-thirds of the painting is dominated by variations of pink, red and orange-yellow. The whole canvas resembles a firework display of red and pink tones that also colour the sky and the figures.
| Artist |
Jenny Montigny
RKD
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| Title | The Begonias (The Gardener) |
| Date | 1913 |
| Period | 20th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: J. Montigny |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1913-K |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Wereldtentoonstelling Ghent 1913 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1913-K |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/589/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
21D
water (one of the four elements)
Iconclass
22C light Iconclass 22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 24A8 sunlight Iconclass 24A81 sunbeams Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25G41(BEGONIA) flowers (BEGONIA) Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 31D15 adult woman Iconclass 41A6811 watering plants Iconclass 41A682 gardening-tools Iconclass 41A682(WATERING CAN) gardening-tools (WATERING CAN) Iconclass 41D221(BOATER) head-gear: boater Iconclass 47I3 horticulture, vegetable culture, market gardening Iconclass 47I3(+21) horticulture, vegetable culture, market gardening (+ men (labourers)) Iconclass 61D(BELGIUM) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (BELGIUM) Iconclass 61E(DEURLE) names of cities and villages (DEURLE) Iconclass 61E(LAETHEM-SAINT-MARTIN) names of cities and villages (LAETHEM-SAINT-MARTIN) Iconclass 61F(PONTSTRAAT) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (PONTSTRAAT) Iconclass |
| School / Style |
Impressionist (style)
AAT
Luminist (Belgian style and movement) AAT |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 109) |
| Het impressionisme en het fauvisme in België = L'impressionisme et le fauvisme en Belgique (tentoonstelling Elsene, Museum van Elsene, 12.10 - 16.12.1990) / Serge Goyens de Heusch. - Elsene (Brussel) : Museum van Elsene, 1990 (p. 157-159, cat. 79 (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. 243) |
| Investigation of paper Harikogaku and the restoration : Report / Mina Rikitake. - Kibi : Kibi International University of Japan Graduate School, s.d. (nr 27) |
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