Shrimp fishers at Saint-Georges
(Pêcheurs de crevettes à Saint-Georges)
(c. 1910)

Rupert BUNNY

Medium: oil on canvas
Measurements: 120.7 × 161.9 cm
Place/s of Execution: Paris, France
Inscription: inscribed in black paint l.l.: Rupert C W Bunny
Accession Number: 1685-4
Department: Australian Painting
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Gallery location: Not on display
About this work: Rupert Bunny was one of the most successful Australians of his generation. In an era when artists were increasingly drawn to the vibrant cultural atmosphere of Europe, no other painter achieved the accolades Bunny accumulated in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s. Shrimp fishers at Saint-George depicts holiday-makers at the fashionable resort of Saint-Georges de Didonne, on the Atlantic coast. In such images of predominantly female figures engaged in leisurely pursuits, Bunny captured the elegance of the Edwardian age that was shattered by the outbreak of the First World War.
Subjects (general): Daily Life Human Figures
Subjects (specific): children (people by age group) fishermen (people) fishing groups of people men (male humans) parasols (costume accessories) women (female humans)
Frame: Original, maker unknown

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