On view
William R. Elfers Gallery
The Marble Polisher,
1882–87
Lautrec’s careful anatomical depiction of a kneeling man polishing marble reflects his study of a famous ancient Roman sculpture, the Knife Grinder, in the Uffizi Museum in Florence, as well as the academic training he received as a student in the Parisian studio of the painter Fernand Cormon. Executed early in his career, the painting already reveals the broken brushwork, colored shadows, and strong diagonal composition that would become central to the artist’s later style
Comparative image: Artist unidentified, Rome, Knife Grinder, 2nd century CE. Marble,h. 105 cm. Le Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence.
Information
1882–87
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Paul D. Blanc and Brian Dolan, eds., At work in the world: proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health: what poetry and the visual arts tell us about the history of occupational and environmental health, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2012).
