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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Hugo Salmson was a Swedish painter with a varied repertoire. He painted genre pieces such as this but also still-life subjects, landscapes and portraits. 'In 1868, on a scholarship, Salmson travelled via Copenhagen and Düsseldorf to Paris, where he became a pupil of the history painter Pierre-Charles Comte (1823-95). Salmson was one of the first Swedish painters to train in Paris, where he remained. His earlier paintings were experiments in the historical genre of the Salon tradition, but he later became known for his Naturalistic pictures of peasant life inspired by Millet, Jules Breton and also increasingly by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Beet Weeders in Picardy, (1878; Goteborg, Kunstmus.) caused a stir at the Salon in 1878 and secured Salmson's reputation. It was inspired by Max Liebermann's Workers in a Turnip Field, exhibited at the Salon in 1876, but the latter's vulgar Naturalism was tempered and slightly idealized in Salmson's, in the spirit of Millet. After his success with Beet Weeders Salmson painted a large number of peasant scenes, taking his subjects from Picardy or from Skane in Southern Sweden, where he spent most of his summers from about 1883.' This work was probably also painted during this period and despite the title, the subjects may actually be Swedish rather than French peasants. | Subjects: | everyday life (agriculture) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Salmson, Hugo Fredrik (Swedish artist, 1843-1894) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8874... | Go to resource |
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