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Artist: Jean-Eugène Buland (1852–1926)
French painter
Title: Un Patron or The lesson of the Apprentice
Object type: Painting
Description: The French defeat in the war with Germany in 1871 was blamed partly on the slow industrialization of France. Therefore, huge efforts were made to modernize the country – a process that was also reflected in painting. Even though depictions of rural labor remained more frequent, pictures of the metal industry also existed – scenes from iron and steel mills, weapons factories and railroad track factories. To realistically represent this combined smithy and mechanical workshop, the artist used photographs. The foreman is using a drill to make a cogwheel – a vital component that keeps the entire modern machinery rolling.
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Height: 102 cm (40.2 in). Width: 82 cm (32.3 in).
Inscriptions (Swedish): Signerad: Eug Buland 88
SKU: 273109
