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The siesta
(La Sieste)
1862
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 73.4 × 99.4 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: _ J. G. Vibert. 1862 _
inscribed in black paint c.r.: G V. (underlined) / 1862 (underlined) / F. - Accession Number
- p.301.8-1
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased by the Commissioners of Fine Arts for Victoria, 1864
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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A tour de force of representational painting, completed when Vibert was just twenty-two years old, The siesta was the first of his works to be exhibited at the Paris Salon (1863) and, a year later, his first painting to be shown in England – where he went on to achieve considerable popularity. Vibert’s charming painting of a rustic Spanish inn combines an emulation of the crystalline finish of seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes and interiors with an exotic locale.
- Subjects (general)
- Daily Life Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- brooms (maintenance tools) men (male humans) repose (activity) scenes (depictions) seated figures smoking (activity) tables (support furniture) taverns
- Provenance
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Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1863, as La Sieste; with Ernest Gambart (dealer), French Gallery, London, 1864; there exhibited, 1864, no. 179; from where purchased by Sir Charles Eastlake, for the NGV, 1864.
Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1863, as La Sieste; French Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1864, no. 179; Fine Arts Gallery (Compartment 10), Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866, no. 308.
