#11 Chrysler Treasures - The Vegetable Vendor Traditional Cache
#11 Chrysler Treasures - The Vegetable Vendor
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Eleventh in a series of caches highlighting the art of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum, One Memorial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510. The Chrysler Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday from Noon to 5 pm. Admission is Free. Website: www.chrysler.org. This painting may be seen in Gallery 207 at the museum.
Love was the presiding theme of French rococo painting, and François Boucher (1703-1770), Louis XV's premier artist and quintessential exponent of mid-18th-century French style, paid lavish homage to rococo romance in pastorales. In these bucolic genre scenes Boucher fashioned a rural paradise of perfect, unfettered love. It is an idyllic dreamworld in which comely young shepherdesses & peasant girls - well-scrubbed & attired - are courted by their handsome swains under an eternally blue sky.
Inspired by the idealized vision of rustic life found in pastoral poetry & contemporary theatrical productions, Boucher's pastorales were a response to the escapist fantasies of the French aristocracy, who found in his peasant idylls a mental refuge from the pressures & formalities of life at court. A masterful instance of Boucher's ravishing palette & buttery brushwork, "Pastorale: The Vegetable Vendor" has been dated c. 1735.
In it a farm boy displays his produce to a young female buyer -- a kitchen maid, perhaps -- while her bashful companion looks on. As in all of the artist's pastorales, the encounter here of peasant boy and girl brims with amorous intent; their ostensibly mercantile dealings surely symbolize the romantic exchange of hearts. Much of the painting's landscape imagery and the splendid array of vegetables, animals, buckets & jugs in the foreground recall the earlier pastoral paintings and prints of the Genoese Castiglione. The subject here seems straightforward: a farm boy presents his produce to a kitchen maid, hoping to make a sale. Yet the scene is coded with symbols that chart a more arousing theme. 18th-century viewers would have seen the parsnips the boy offers to the maid, the bound animals on his donkey, and even the eggs in the basket at left as emblems of lovemaking. This blushing encounter of boy and girl brims with sexual longing, their business exchange symbolizing something far more intense: the triumph of love.
Other caches in this series include:
Other caches in this series include:
Chrysler Treasures #1 - The Norfolk Mace (GC7C965) Located in Gallery 208
Chrysler Treasures # 3 - Angel Appearing to Shepherds (GC7EC96) Located in Gallery 211
Chrysler Treasures # 4 - The Neophyte (GC7ECR7) Located in Gallery 214
Chrysler Treasures # 5 - The Wounded Indian (GC7EMPZ) (No longer at the Chrysler)
Chrysler Treasures # 6 - Picasso (redux) (GCA6RA1) Located in Gallery 219
Chrysler Treasures # 9 - Veronese (GC7EYA3) Located in Gallery 204
Chrysler Treasures #10 - The Last Judgement (GC7EYE5) Located in Gallery 202
Chrysler Treasures #11 - The Vegetable Vendor (GC7EZM5) Located in Gallery 207
Chrysler Treasures #12 - James Baldwin (GC7F3HN) Located in Gallery 222
Chrysler Treasures #13 - Ganymede and the Eagle (redux) (GCARWVG) Located in Gallery 208
Chrysler Treasures #14 - Renoir (GC7F3PJ) Located in Gallery 217
Chrysler Treasures #15 - Samurai Armor (GC7F6M8) Located in Gallery 106
Chrysler Treasures #16 - Tiffany Glass (GC7F5WY) Located in Gallery 116
Chrysler Treasures #18 - Naga Buddha (redux) (GC8A8PE) Located in Gallery 107
Chrysler Treasures #19 - Sarcophagus (redux) (GC8A8X8) Located in Gallery 109
Chrysler Treasures #20 - Georgia O'Keefe(redux) (8TNNX) (located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 21 - Libenksy and Brychtova (GC7QFM0) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 22 - Abstract Expressionism (GC7QG86) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 23 - Hamlet Robot (GC7QG8E) Located in Gallery 223 (now in storeage)
Chrysler Treasures # 25 - Bernini's Bust of Christ (GC8RZB5) in Gallery 205
Chrysler Treasures # 26 - MacPherson and MacDonald (GC8ZXF5) in Gallery 218
Chrysler Treasures # 27 - Karen Lamonte (GC8ZY3Q) in Gallery 108
Chrysler Treasures # 28 - Amor Forgiven (GC90M9V) in Galley 216
Chrysler Treasures # 29 - Standing Warrior (GC90VFT) in Gallery 105
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