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Le Repas des Pauvres
Presented by Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle 1912
adults
clothing and personal items
drink, wine
eating
eating and drinking
food - non-specific
food and drink
furnishings
hat
health and welfare
interiors
leisure and pastimes
man
objects
people
places of entertainment
poverty
restaurant
sack
society
table cloth
trading and commercial
vessels and containers
waiter / waitress
work and occupations
<p>Legros was a French painter who settled in London in 1863, and from then on exhibited at both the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. A friend of Manet, Degas and Whistler, he became the main link between French and British avant-garde artists. Legros was initially much influenced by the French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, as can be seen in Le Repas des Pauvres ('The meal of the poor'). From the late 1860s a number of Victorian painters chose to paint 'social realist' subjects of this type to draw attention to the poverty and hardship of working class life.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
31 January 2012 – 12 August 2012
2012-08-12
31 January 2012 – 12 August 2012
2012-08-12
2012-01-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-01-31
Migrations
Exhibition
2 November 2017 – 14 October 2018
2018-10-14
2 November 2017 – 7 May 2018
2018-05-07
2017-11-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
21 June 2018 – 14 October 2018
2018-10-14
2018-06-21
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France)
2017-11-02
Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile, 1870-1904
Exhibition
2 November 2017 – 14 October 2018
2018-10-14
20 June 2018 – 14 October 2018
2018-10-14
2018-06-20
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris, France)
2017-11-02
Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile, 1870 - 1904
Loan-out
11 October 2024 – 19 January 2026
2026-01-19
11 October 2024 – 5 January 2025
2025-01-05
2024-10-11
Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, USA)
http://www.chrysler.org
31 January 2025 – 4 May 2025
2025-05-04
2025-01-31
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
13 June 2025 – 21 September 2025
2025-09-21
2025-06-13
Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, USA)
http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
23 October 2025 – 19 January 2026
2026-01-19
2025-10-23
Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, USA)
2024-10-11
Farm to Table: Art, Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism
Loan-out
Le Repas des Pauvres
support: 1130 × 1429 mm
frame: 1523 × 1800 × 128 mm
Presented by Rosalind, Countess of Carlisle 1912
<p>Legros was a French painter who settled in  London in 1863, and from then on exhibited  at both the Royal Academy and the Paris <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a>.  A friend of Manet, Degas and Whistler, he  became the main link between French and  British <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/avant-garde" title="Glossary definition for 'Avant-garde'"><span>avant-garde</span></a> artists. Legros was initially much influenced by the French <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/realism" title="Glossary definition for 'Realism'"><span>Realist</span></a> painter Gustave Courbet, as can be seen in Le Repas  des Pauvres ('The meal of the poor'). From the  late 1860s a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/v/victorian" title="Glossary definition for 'Victorian'"><span>Victorian</span></a> painters chose  to paint '<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/social-realism" title="Glossary definition for 'Social Realism'"><span>social realist</span></a>' subjects of this type to  draw attention to the poverty and hardship  of working class life. </p>
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adults clothing and personal items drink, wine eating eating and drinking food and drink food - non-specific furnishings hat health and welfare interiors leisure and pastimes man objects people places of entertainment poverty restaurant sack society table cloth trading and commercial vessels and containers waiter / waitress work and occupations