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In the Tack Room
Datec. 1840

Artist Carl Schindler (1821 Wien – 1842 Laab im Walde)

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Object typePainting
MediumOil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 40,5 cm
Signatureunlabelled
Inventory number2058
Location Currently not on display
The boy has not entered the tack room to play but to work. He wears a blue smock and a crude apron. A broom is propped beside him. Thoughtful, perhaps even sad, he sits on a stool and scatters grain for the cockerel. On the chest in front of the window is an axe. No self-respecting farmer or artisan would ever carelessly leave an axe lying around. It would have been hung on the wall like the horse tack or locked away in a cupboard. The blade gleams in the sunlight—somehow we know how the story will unfold. The boy has set aside the broom to feed the bird one final time before the cockerel is slaughtered.

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