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I just took a few moments to prowl through the French museums’ photo site for images of meals. Many of these are of historical or religious scenes but use clothes and customs of the painter’s time. Few are particularly ornate (bread and wine are sometimes all we see). Certainly, nothing suggesting the ornate sauces and stews found in period cookbooks appears, probably because roasts and loaves of bread simply looked less cluttered for painterly purposes. But some might be of interest nonetheless:
14th century
Italian – preparing tripe
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=54&FP=8588682&E=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&SID=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&New=T&Pic=18&SubE=2C6NU0CA6A6A
wine and bread and workers
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=54&FP=8588682&E=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&SID=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&New=T&Pic=19&SubE=2C6NU0CA62IS
3 simple tables
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=54&FP=8588682&E=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&SID=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&New=T&Pic=48&SubE=2C6NU044BT@2
Monks and knight
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=54&FP=8588682&E=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&SID=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&New=T&Pic=52
Last Supper
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=54&FP=8588682&E=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&SID=2K1KTSUKO4VYB&New=T&Pic=53&SubE=2C6NU0GZNO2M
15th century
Hunting meal
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=4&SubE=2C6NU00U7Z3K
People dining in tubs
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=8
Herod’s banquet
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=10&SubE=2C6NU0QSRBAG
Salome dancing for Herod
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=11
January meal
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=12
Christ visits Simon the Pharisee (with fish)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=18
The Wedding of Cana (carving – fish?)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=28&SubE=2C6NU0HV4RMJ
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=29
The Book of Good Manners- sharing your meal
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=49
The Book of Good Manners – sober living
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=50
King’s feast
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=51
hunting meal
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=52
Two tables from above
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=56&SubE=2C6NU0BLZ42T
January meal
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=58
King’s feast
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=62
Joseph and fellow prisoners (side of ribs?)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=63
Meal for Job’s children
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=64
Burgundian banquet
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=68&SubE=2C6NU0B9CJP2
Alexander’s conquest (feast)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=84
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=87
January meal (variant with two dogs)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=89
Book of Manners – how the rich must not glory in their riches
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=91&SubE=2C6NU0GNZL@Z
Alexander’s feast (with peacock)
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=100&SubE=2C6NU0GASU8T
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=105
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?Total=117&FP=8590081&E=2K1KTSUKO4K98&SID=2K1KTSUKO4K98&New=T&Pic=115
Jim Chevallier
North Hollywood, CA
www.chezjim.com
More Images:
Here’s a few more from various sources.
It stands to reason that the very LAST image I would find (from the Bridgeman Archive) shows something useful: what appears to be a freshly trimmed trencher being presented to a king who already has one set on two wooden? trenchers, with bits of cut food on it:
A Princely Banquet, 1491 (woodcut) (b/w photo)
Title:
German School, (15th century)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/German-School-15th-century/A-Princely-Banquet-1491-woodcut-b-w-photo/d53689a45a27447d9590fdb17d25c89d?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=154
Otherwise, most of these remain fairly general, but specific elements might be of interest to different list members:
15th century
Livre de la confrérie Saint-Nicolas de Valenciennes
http://www.europeana.com/portal/record/03908/D9F1939CF5F2872B2D59438B7CDDF3A145C05626.html?query=text%3Arepas&qf=YEAR:1490&start=3&startPage=1&view=table&pageId=brd
Heures à l’usage d’Amiens
http://www.europeana.com/portal/record/03908/2F4752078C30F0005497821574BA22DFF9DBE221.html?query=text%3Arepas&qf=YEAR:1490&start=9&startPage=1&view=table&pageId=brd
Parabole du fils prodigue ; Le fils prodigue recevant sa part d’héritage ; Départ du fils prodigue ; Le fils prodigue et les courtisanes ; Le fils prodigue gardant les pourceaux ; Le retour du fils prodigue ; Le festin du fils prodigue ; initiale ornée ; pied-de-mouche
http://www.europeana.com/portal/record/15803/E5C71FABF08F502BA27CE0322692EB88C4D789A8.html?query=text%3Arepas&qf=YEAR:1490&qf=YEAR:1482&start=1&startPage=1&view=table&pageId=brd
Heures à l’usage de Tours ou de Bourges
http://www.europeana.com/portal/record/03908/D5954FC7FB583DF00543230DA919484A4326F909.html?query=text%3Arepas&qf=YEAR:1635&qf=YEAR:1495&start=11&startPage=1&view=table&pageld=brd
Heures à l’usage de Rouen
http://www.europeana.com/portal/record/03908/324013A159A67AE941F36F980B8044F4D8742D50.html?query=text%3Arepas&qf=YEAR:1500&start=2&startPage=1&view=table&pageId=brd
Bridgeman has a whole section of FOOD & DRINK UP TO 16TH CENTURY including:
The Bean Eater, c.1583-84 (oil on canvas)
Title:
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/Carracci-Annibale-1560-1609/The-Bean-Eater-c-1583-84-oil-on-canvas/7d723cb2e9044c9d9af266c32541e25f?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=55
Banquet Given by Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400-75) for Christian I (1426-
81) of Denmark (fresco) (detail)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/Fogolino-Marcello-1470-c-1550/Banquet-Given-by-Bartolomeo-Colleoni-1400-75-for-Christian-I-1426-81-of-Denmark-fresco-detail/343d2034e30e4dd0a1a692ebf8c0c718?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=82
A Family Saying Grace Before the Meal, 1585 (oil on panel)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/Claeissins-or-Claeissens-Anthuenis-Antoon-1536-1613/A-Family-Saying-Grace-Before-the-Meal-1585-oil-on-panel/10c8dbc0f5a64829b066ac6a3640540c?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=99
The Meal with the Prostitutes, copy of a 16th century coloured engraving (colour litho)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/German-School-20th-century/The-Meal-with-the-Prostitutes-copy-of-a-16th-century-coloured-engraving-colour-litho/af8dba1c0ce1455cae29b17eecbba669?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=102
State banquet – serving the peacock, after a woodcut in an edition of Virgil, published Lyons, 1517 (litho) (b/w photo)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/French-School-16th-century-after/State-banquet-serving-the-peacock-after-a-woodcut-in-an-edition-of-Virgil-published-Lyons-1517-lith/05c48cead86545e2b245d60e454a3b9c?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=130
Double Portrait of an Elderly Couple (oil on canvas)
Title:
Valckenborch, Lucas van (c.1535-97)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/image/Valckenborch-Lucas-van-c-1535-97/Double-Portrait-of-an-Elderly-Couple-oil-on-canvas/66d2ab3bba7841f6a8cee8681e13d80d?key=&classification=b9e20eef-28d9-4226-b4e3-5a2fa31aa5e0&filter=CBPOIHV&thumb=x150&num=15&page=140
17th
anonyme
Titre Repas d’un roi et de trois vieillards servis par des pages
Période création/exécution 1er quart 17e siècle
Lieu de conservation Paris ; musée du Louvre département des Arts
graphiques
Numéro d’inventaire INV 33659, recto
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0195/m503501_d0012516-000_p.jpg
More images from the Tacinum Sanitatis tradition:
In what other Italian source will you find… camel meat:
http://www.moleiro.com/en/books-of-medicine/tacuinum-sanitatis/miniatura/899
Along with, of course, ricotta:
http://www.moleiro.com/en/books-of-medicine/tacuinum-sanitatis/miniatura/878
What looks like a handsome reproduction is available for purchase:
http://www.moleiro.com/en/books-of-medicine/tacuinum-sanitatis/images.php
I can’t tell if it’s cheaper than the Scriptorium’s (over $600!):
http://www.skriptorium.at/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=64
Otherwise, you can get the unwatermarked images on Wikimedia:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tacuina_sanitatis
Including this early image of pasta:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tacuin_P%C3%A2te42.jpg
Under the general heading of daily life, it actually includes one gently erotic image as well:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:52-aspetti_di_vita_quotidiana,_amore,Taccuino_Sanitatis,_Cas.jpg
For anyone looking to make that special Valentine’s card…
Unfortunately, I can see no image of a full meal. Still, what a wonderful collection!
Jim Chevallier
North Hollywood, CA
www.chezjim.com
