Rupert BUNNY

Chattering
(c. 1908)

Medium

oil on canvas

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004

Gallery location: Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

About this work

Rupert Bunny was one of the many artists that left Australia at the close of the nineteenth century to seek formal training and an international reputation. From 1886 to 1932, he predominantly lived in France, and exhibited at the Paris Salon and London’s Royal Academy. Chattering belongs to a series of paintings that Bunny exhibited in London under the title Days and Nights in August. Works from this series feature elegantly dressed women engaged in leisurely pursuits. Bunny’s principal model for the works was his wife Jeanne Morel, whom he had married in 1902.

Artwork Details

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

60.5 × 73.3 cm

Place/s of Execution

Paris, France

Inscription

inscribed in brown paint Rupert C W. Bunny
inscribed (vertically) in pencil on reverse Chattering

Accession Number

2004.156

Department

Australian Painting

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation

Gallery location

Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia

Subjects (general)

Daily Life Human Figures Interiors

Subjects (specific)

books chairs (furniture forms) curtains (window hangings) hats parasols (costume accessories) porches railings (balustrades) women (female humans)

Colourmen

Colourman: PAUL FOINET FILS
Location of stamp: Right half reverse of canvas
Transcript: COULEURS . FINES/PAUL FOINET FILS/21. Rue BREA
Medium: Ink stencil
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Rupert BUNNY

Chattering
(c. 1908)