In A Roman Osteria

Title

In A Roman Osteria

Artist

Eric Glaser

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"In a Roman Osteria"

Artist: Carl Bloch (Danish, 1834-1890)

Title: In a Roman Osteria

Object Type: Painting

Genre: Genre art

Date: 1866

Depicted People: Moritz G. Melchior, Carl Bloch

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 1,485 mm (58.46 in); Width: 1,775 mm (69.88 in)

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

As is often the case in Bloch’s work, knives and forks are brandished rather freely. Note in particular how the phallic decanter to the left may be close to an inviting mouth with slightly parted lips, but is equally - and unpleasantly - close to a knife and a fork with only two large prongs considerably more pointy than those of the young man’s fork.

A popular genre picture

In a Roman Osteria is an intensified version of a painting by one of Bloch’s major predecessors, Wilhelm Marstrand (1810-1873); specifically his charming Italian Osteria Scene from 1848 (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek). It is one of Bloch’s most popular genre pictures and is typical of his seductive ability to depict objects, details, and clothes with striking realism.

Commision pictures

Within Bloch’s body of work, the genre pictures constituted a break from the many commissions from the Danish Establishment. Friars with toothache, monks plucking chickens, coarse fishwives, and children hunting innocent ducks were among his favourite subjects. These pictures were usually very amusing, but also often rather strange and very much open to interpretation.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

This is a Google Art Project image, thank you Google!

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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