The Butcher's Shop by Annibale Carracci (1560 - 1609)

            The Postcard

A postcard that was published by Abacus (Colour Printers) ltd. of Cumbria.

The painting is held by the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford.

Note the sheep in the foreground which looks about to breathe its last.

The Butcher's Shop

The Butcher's Shop is the title of two paintings by the Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci, both dating from the early 1580's. 

They are now in the collections of Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

The paintings are connected to the contemporary Beaneater (Galleria Colonna), as they are very early examples of Italian genre painting. 

The large size of the Christ Church painting is exceptional for such a subject at this date, and it has been suggested that they were commissioned by a butcher's guild, or for use as a sign. 

Carracci was influenced in his depiction of everyday life subjects by Vincenzo Campi and Bartolomeo Passarotti, whom the Butcher's Shop was originally attributed to. 

Carracci's ability to adapt his style is demonstrated, making it "lower" when concerning "lower", quasi-satirical subjects like the Mangiafagioli and the Butcher's Shop, while in his more academic works (such as the roughly contemporary Assumption of the Virgin) he was able to use a more finished manner with the same ease.

It is claimed that members of the painter's family were used as models. Significant alterations to some figures are revealed by X-rays, and the hand on the edge of the table, now apparently belonging to the old woman, though not in proportion with the rest of her, may have originally belonged to the butcher to the right of her.

The Christ Church painting was in the collections of the Gonzaga Dukes of Mantua and Charles I of England; after reaching Christ Church it was hung for a long time in the college kitchen, before being recognised for what it was in the 20th. century.

Taken on: July 3, 2024

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