The croquet game
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| The croquet game |
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| Édouard Manet , 1873 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 72.5 × 106 cm |
| Städel , Frankfurt am Main |
Die Krocketpartie (French: La Partie de croquet ) is an impressionist painting by Édouard Manet from 1873. It is now in the Städel in Frankfurt am Main .
Image content
You can see four people, two women and two men, playing croquet in a garden landscape. The people are identifiable. In this painting, Édouard Manet depicts his artist colleague and friend Alfred Stevens as well as his friends Paul Rodier, Alice Legouvé and Victorine Meurent . Alfred Stevens' garden serves as the playing field. The two women wear hats and corsets according to the conventions of their timewhich is particularly evident in the female figure on the left. Croquet was a very popular leisure activity of the French middle class during the period when the painting was created. It allowed an informal interaction between the sexes, as was possible with few other leisure activities. Accordingly, the front male figure sits casually in the grass, the rear male figure has put his left hand in his trouser pocket and watches the action in a dandy-like position . The persons shown are staggered one behind the other. A diagonal runs from the figure seated in front to the gentleman depicted in the background.
classification
The Impressionists, including Édouard Manet , dealt intensively with plein air painting . Édouard Manet only faced the special challenge of this painting from 1870 after his colleague Berthe Morisot suggested it. The garden is only shown very briefly. There are no floral details. Compared to other Impressionist plein air paintings, the picture appears static due to its well thought-out gradation of depth.
supporting documents
literature
- Sabine Schulze (Ed.): Gardens: Order - Inspiration - Luck , Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main & Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1870-7
Single receipts
- ↑ Schule et al., P. 208