Cecil van Haanen
Afternoon Coffee, Venice

Artwork Detail
This convivial image of seamstresses pausing from their work details some of the tools and processes involved in their craft. In the foreground a fashion illustration, probably torn from a popular magazine, sits atop a length of cloth laid out for cutting. The flat iron in the lower right would have been heated on a stove-top and on the left, a collapsible wooden cotton winder holds the thread ready for use. The seamstresses were probably friends of the Dutch artist, then living at San Trovaso in Venice.
- Title
- Afternoon Coffee, Venice
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 1883
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 1555 x 1225 mm
- Credit line
- Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Accession no
- MU/143
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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