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| Keywords: Théodule Ribot - The Young Cook - Walters 373.jpg Ribot was a naturalist painter who specialized in domestic genre scenes and religious works In this small painting a butcher boy tempts a cat with a slice of meat This work typifies the kitchen scenes that Ribot began to produce in the late 1850s He often painted at night by candlelight a fact that might have contributed to the limited range of colors and dramatic contrasts of light and shadow in his works Like so many of his colleagues at this time Ribot was influenced by Dutch Spanish and French 17th-century paintings in the Louvre Museum between 1855 1870 Oil on canvas cm 35 27 5 ; Frame cm 56 49 ; Stretcher cm 34 93 26 99 accession number 37 3 7775 P A Cheramy Sale Paris May 6-7 1908 no 231 Henry Walters Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 t Ribot signature lower left ~ place of origin France PD-old-auto 1916 Théodule-Augustin Ribot Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Paintings of cooks Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
