Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
An animal identified by coat and place
The title gives a location, a coat description and a building. It gives no name, no owner and no task. In a catalogue arranged by function that is a specific kind of entry: the horse off duty, in the place where it waits between jobs. A stable is where the working animal is not working, and a picture made there is a picture of the interval rather than of the work.
A pair of records
This catalogue holds a second entry with the same place name, the same year and the same stable, distinguished only by the coat named in its title. The two are separate records. Whether one follows the other, or whether both describe the same animal, is not something the catalogue states, and this page does not settle it.
What the record holds
The date of creation is 1878 and the location line reads Private Collection. The dimensions are 39 x 33 cm. The record gives Impressionism as the style term, French as the nationality, and red as the measured colour family of the image. Animal Art > Horse is the only subject heading the record carries at all.
Sources
4 references- Gustave Caillebotte — Wikipedia
Gustave Caillebotte (French: [ɡystav kɑjbɔt]; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Caillebot
- Caillebotte, Gustave — Getty ULAN
French painter, 1848-1894
- Dark Bay Horse in the Stable — Wikidata
description: painting by Gustave Caillebotte; dimensions: 39 × 33 cm
- Caillebotte - Yerres, Dark Bay Horse in the Stable, circa 1871-1878 — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
