Object details
Accession number
3.3.o.120
Primary Creator
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Full title
The Large Brewery
Creation Date
1890
State
III/III
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Signed and dated on plate (lower right): Zorn 1890Inscribed on plate (lower right edge): HamburInscribed on plate (lower left edge): Fran Hamburgerbryggeriet, StockholmNumbered in pencil (lower left corner): A.40Numbered in pencil (lower right corner): 147
Dimensions
15.9 x 23.8 cm (6 1/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Etching
Web Commentary
In 1890, artist Anders Zorn painted and made prints of Swedish breweries, the businesses that made, bottled, and sold beer. The Large Brewery etching is modeled after a larger painted composition in the Gӧteborgs Konstemuseum.Storing beer required cool temperatures, so breweries were often located in basements. The women in back form an assembly line of filling and corking bottles. Seated against the wall, seven women—all wearing the same style shiny wax apron—carefully apply labels to the beer bottles. Zorn captures light reflecting off a label by leaving a bright white spot on the heavily inked sheet.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Sven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 67, ZG40.
Oliver Tostmann et al. Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013), pp. 106-108.
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