The Grape Gatherer
Date1753
Object PlaceFrance, Western Europe, Europe
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationsPaintings
Dimensions37 × 58 inches (93.98 × 147.32 cm)
Credit LineFounders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund
Object number71.391
DescriptionYoung woman in vermillion costume with pale yellow skirt, white puffed sleeves and straw hat holds apron full of grapes. She playfully squeezes juice of grapes over a child lying on the ground before her. Another child is beside her, partly hidden in the flounce of her dress.On View
On viewLocations
- Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 9
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of:
Duc de Rochechouart (painted for his mansion in the
Faubourg St. Germain, Paris)
Baron Roger Portalis, Paris
Eugene Kraemer, Paris, Sale May 5-6, 1913, lots 32-35,
(bought by Levy)
Judge Elbert H. Gary
Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, Detroit
17th Century
c. 1678
18th Century
c. 1730
1540/1545
1641