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About the artwork
Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Genre scene
Technique: Oil
Date of creation: 1885
Artwork in selections: 16 selections

Description of the artwork «Bridesmaid»

Moments of social life — the calling card of Tissot. "Bridesmaids" is a frame of gallant everyday life of the middle class.

Young woman in a pale blue dress with curiosity looks in a convertible, in which through the moment go to the wedding. Lush bustle in the fashion of those years, a slight smile, in which the read and anticipation, and an easy answer to flirting Shafer — each item draws and plays up the atmosphere of the upcoming celebrations, which seem to expect not only the girl but also the whole street.

Full of people street — is itself a celebration, though the artist gives the viewer the opportunity to see the whole panorama. A couple of the girls in the dresses of servants with admiration behold the lucky girl, but a boy with a strong masculine hands continues his journey and invites buyers, despite a gallant scene in front of him. The cook, carrying on her head a basket with lunch, hawkers and passers-by create a feeling of lightness and liveliness Avenue, zakruchivaetsya around the elegant couple of the crew. All this "fluidity" tells the viewer about the daily life scene, despite the lace, secular smile, and a black peaked umbrella, saving the lady from the London drizzle.

"Bridesmaids" was written in the period between the years 1883-1885, in the period when the author was left without his beloved, but still continued to write in the usual aesthetics. A few years earlier Auguste Renoir he wrote his famous "Umbrellas" that involuntarily come to mind when looking at the work of Tissot. Impressionistic ability to snatch moments of life, and thus to give them a special delicacy, a special and recognizable feature of Tissot. The painting was shown at his Paris exhibition "La Femme a Paris".

"Bridesmaids" was sold at Christie's in 1889 for £ 69.55 and is now kept at the art gallery in Leeds.

Author: Lyudmila Lebedeva








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