Butchery in Tanger
Artist / maker
Théo Van Rysselberghe (painters (artists))Date
1882Period
19th centuryCollection
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
In 1882 Théo Van Rysselberghe won a travel scholarship, which enabled him to travel to Spain together with Constantin Meunier, Dario de Regoyos and Frantz Charlet. He decided to travel on to Morocco, in the footsteps of his tutor, Jean Portaels, looking for exotic designs and inspirational impressions. In Morocco, Van Rysselberghe mainly derived his inspiration from everyday street scenes…
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In 1882 Théo Van Rysselberghe won a travel scholarship, which enabled him to travel to Spain together with Constantin Meunier, Dario de Regoyos and Frantz Charlet. He decided to travel on to Morocco, in the footsteps of his tutor, Jean Portaels, looking for exotic designs and inspirational impressions. In Morocco, Van Rysselberghe mainly derived his inspiration from everyday street scenes. He processed them using a strong colour palette and an eye for careful light management. In doing so the artist used his palette knife to ‘construct’ his work on the basis of almost geometric spaces.
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