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A Family In The Stone Age
A Family in the Stone Age (French language, French: ''Une famille à l'âge de pierre'') is a 1892 Oil painting, oil on canvas painting by the Academic art, Academic artist Emmanuel Benner, now in the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, Alsace, France (inventory number 88.RP.24). History The painting was exhibited at the 1892 Salon (Paris), Salon de Paris (catalog #122), under the French title ''L’alerte ; âge de pierre'' (The Alarm ; The Stone Age). Description Like Benner's earlier ''Lakeside Dwelling'', the painting depicts a scene from life in Prehistory, prehistoric times; here the artist shows three generations of a family of cave dwellers facing the threat of a bear. The family is composed of four people, the father, who is aiming at the bear with his bow and arrow, a mother, a child, and an old man, probably the child's grandfather. They are all dressed in a primitive way, covered in animal skins, and the child, who is crouching in the ground, is entirely naked. The woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Benner
Emmanuel Benner (28 March 1836, in Mulhouse – 23 September 1896, in Nantes) was a France, French Academic art, Academic Painting, painter and Drawing, draughtsman. The son of the painter Jean Benner-Fries, he was twin to fellow artist, Jean Benner, and the uncle of the painter Emmanuel Michel Benner, Jean's son. Like his twin brother, he was portrayed by fellow Alsatian, Jean-Jacques Henner. Biography Emmanuel Benner studied under his father, and under Jean-Jacques Eck (1812–1887) at the School for industrial design (''école de dessin industriel'') of Mulhouse, then in Paris with Henner and with Léon Bonnat. He started exhibiting paintings at the Salon (Paris), Salon de Paris in 1867 and would do so regularly until his death. The Benner twins also collaborated as designers with their other fellow Alsatian, ceramist and potter Théodore Deck. Their styles being very similar, they occasionally worked together on a painting, such as the ''Allégorie de l’Exposition Universel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |