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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Ribot, Théodule-Augustin Creator Nationality: European; French Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1823 - 1891 Biography: Théodule Ribot first tried to study art at the trade school in Châlons, École des Arts et Métiers. When his father died in 1840, Ribot had to help support his family. He worked as a bookkeeper in Rouen, married early, and left for Paris in 1845. There he did various jobs, studied in the atelier of Auguste-Barthélémy Glaize (1807-1893), and, in 1848, went to Algeria to work as a foreman for three years. Back in Paris, he befriended the painter Bonvin (q.v.), who held an exhibition of pictures by his friends in his studio in 1859. These artists, including Fantin-Latour (q.v.), Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), Antoine Vollon (1833-1900), and J. A. M. Whistler (1834-1903), depicted ordinary subjects from their immediate environments without relying on narrative, and they generally used somber colors, limited illumination, and broader brushwork that contrasted with academic standards and methods. Their work elicited a positive response from Courbet (q.v.), considered the father of realism in France. Ribot first exhibited at a Paris Salon in 1861, when his kitchen scenes won generally favorable reviews. To underscore a humble life-style for the artist, his early biographers claim that the dark, inky backgrounds of his pictures were the result of Ribot's painting by lamplight in his free evenings at home. He continued to depict working-class and peasant subjects in a style variously described as Dutch or Spanish by critics, and he participated in the Salons and provincial and international art exhibitions. Always interested in expanding exhibition opportunities for independent painters like himself, he signed a petition in 1863 that decried the Salon jury's numerous rejections that year and contributed to the official decision to hold the Salon des Refusés. Ribot sold his pictures through art galleries in Paris, such as those of Louis Martinet, Alfred Cadart, and Bernheim Jeune, and the French state bought his St. Sebastian (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) in 1865. In 1878 he was named to the Legion of Honor. The following year a serious illness kept Ribot from painting for two years, and his production fell off after this period. In 1884 his fellow artists, including Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), Boudin (q.v.), Fantin-Latour, Monet (q.v.), Puvis de Chavannes (q.v.), and Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), held a banquet in his honor and gave him a medal inscribed "To Théodule Ribot, the independent painter." It is ironic, then, that the year after his death a major retrospective exhibition was organized at the official art school, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: St. Nicholas d'Attez (Eure), 5 August 1823 Creator Death Place: Colombes, 11 September 1891 Creator Name-CRT: Théodule-Augustin Ribot Title: La petite laitière Title Type: Foreign Title: The Little Milkmaid Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1860 Creation End Date: 1870 Creation Date: c. 1865 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on fabric Dimensions: Unframed: 46.3cm x 38.3cm Inscriptions: Signed lower left: t. Ribot AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1973.31 Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Paris sale, Drouot, 6 April 1882 (lot 82), La petite laitière, 46 x 37 cm. By 1982, Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber, Hamburg. (In Exposition Th. Ribot, exh. cat. Paris [1892], Weber is listed as the owner of a painting with the title and size that match the cma picture. It seems awkward, however, that the painting was in a Hamburg collection and was subsequently sold again at the estate sale of Ribot's widow in 1896, where the cma painting is reproduced. Yet Weber had a large collection of Old Master and modern paintings, many of which he sold at auction in 1887, and no Ribot paintings are listed in the 1907 catalogue of his nineteenth-century paintings. It is therefore possible that Weber sold this work privately and that it was eventually added to the estate sale in 1896.) Veuve Ribot estate sale, Paris, Drouot, 30 May 1896 (lot 3, repr.), La petite laitière, 45 x 38 cm, for ff 7,400. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1911. Galerie Bernard Lorenceau, Paris, by 1972. Purchased by the CMA on 7 May 1973. AMICA ID: CMA_.1973.31 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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