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Jehan Georges Vibert
The siesta (La Sieste) 1862
oil on canvas
73.4 × 99.4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased by the Commissioners of Fine Arts for Victoria, 1864
© Public Domain
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The siesta
(La Sieste)
1862
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
73.4 × 99.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased by the Commissioners of Fine Arts for Victoria, 1864
© Public Domain
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
A tour de force of representational painting, completed when Vibert was just twenty-two years old, The siesta was the first of his works to be exhibited at the Paris Salon (1863) and, a year later, his first painting to be shown in England – where he went on to achieve considerable popularity. Vibert’s charming painting of a rustic Spanish inn combines an emulation of the crystalline finish of seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes and interiors with an exotic locale.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.r.: _ J. G. Vibert. 1862 _
inscribed in black paint c.r.: G V. (underlined) / 1862 (underlined) / F.
Accession Number
p.301.8-1
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Daily Life Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
brooms (maintenance tools) men (male humans) repose (activity) scenes (depictions) seated figures smoking (activity) tables (support furniture) taverns
Provenance
Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1863, as La Sieste; with Ernest Gambart (dealer), French Gallery, London, 1864; there exhibited, 1864, no. 179; from where purchased by Sir Charles Eastlake, for the NGV, 1864.
Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1863, as La Sieste; French Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1864, no. 179; Fine Arts Gallery (Compartment 10), Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866, no. 308.