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Episode from the Peasants' Revolt. The Fire of Turnhout (1798-1799), ca. 1878

  • oil paint, paper, panel
  • 29.1 x 40.3 cm
  • Inv. 1935-X

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Artist

Constantin Meunier RKD VIAF Wikidata
Etterbeek (Brussels) 1831 - Ixelles 1905
painters (artists)AAT

Title Episode from the Peasants' Revolt. The Fire of Turnhout (1798-1799)
Date ca. 1878
Period 19th century
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings inscription and signature bottom right: à mon ami et cousin / G. Poirier / Meunier
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1935-X
Acquisition credit gift
Van Straelen-Poirier (coll.)
Ixelles
1935
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/8097/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300033898 history paintings AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A233 kneeling figure Iconclass
31AA233 kneeling figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31AA235 sitting figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
44F revolution, revolt Iconclass
46A14 farmers Iconclass
46AA14 farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife Iconclass
56BB1 Pain, Sorrow, Sadness; 'Dolore', 'Dolore di Zeusi' (Ripa) Iconclass
56BB22 Misery; 'Miseria mondana' (Ripa) Iconclass
56DD11 Despair; 'Disperatione' (Ripa) Iconclass
61I(PEASANT´S REVOLT) names of historical events and situations (PEASANT´S REVOLT) Iconclass
91B13291 Bia, Force, Violence Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
historicism (theory) AAT
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. 239 (ill.))
Constantin Meunier : Sa vie, son oeuvre / Micheline Jérome-Schotsmans. - Bruxelles : Olivier Bertand Éditions, 2012 ; Bruxelles : Belgian Art Research Institute, 2012 (p. 64 (ill. 26; vers. MRBAB))
Constantin Meunier, 1831-1905 (tentoonstelling Brussel, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, 20.09.2014 - 11.01.2015) / Francisca Vandepitte, Dominique Marechal, Paul Aron, Denis Laoureux, Peter Carpreau. - Brussel : Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België (Brussel), 2014
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