French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards, after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848)
"French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards, after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848)" is a large scale tableau vivant HD video projection that recreates a work by 19th century painter Cornelius Krieghoff. This piece re-imagines Krieghoff’s lithograph, "French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards" that depicts a family playing cards around a table. Krieghoff’s piece, which is in the permanent collection at the National Gallery of Canada, fascinates me because it is a representation of early French Canadian life that mixes elements of documentary, allegory and humour. It also echoes the voyageur/settler/Métis iconography that I grew up learning about as part of my Franco-Manitoban heritage.
"French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848), Installation view
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg 2016, Illuminate the Night Special Project, La Cathédrale Saint-Boniface (photo credit: Nicole Coulson)
French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff, 1848 (Installation view)
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg 2016, Illuminate the Night Special Project, La Cathédrale Saint-Boniface (photo credit: Jacquelyn Hébert)
French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848)
If I Was A 'Real' Canadian, I Would Know How To..., Installation View, (2014)
Installation view (from the left): Les histoires changent avec le temps/Stories change with time (mixed-media sculpture), French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848) (8 x 14 ft. HD video projection), and If I were a 'real' Canadian, I would know how to build a canoe...(Jacquard weaving).
photo credit: Jacquelyn Hébert
From the okokok: an mfa thesis exhibition, photographed at Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montreal
If I Was A 'Real' Canadian, I Would Know How To..., Installation View, (2014)
If I Was A 'Real' Canadian, I Would Know How To..., Installation View, (2014)
Installation view (from the left): Les histoires changent avec le temps/Stories change with time (mixed-media sculpture), French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards after Cornelius Krieghoff (1848) (8 x 14 ft. HD video projection), and If I were a 'real' Canadian, I would know how to build a canoe...(Jacquard weaving).
photo credit: Jacquelyn Hébert
From the okokok: an mfa thesis exhibition, photographed at Les Ateliers Jean Brillant, Montreal
French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards
French Canadian Habitants Playing at Cards, 1848
Cornelius Krieghoff
Canadian, 1815 - 1872
lithograph with watercolour on wove paper
Printed by T. Kammerer
44 x 57.4 cm; image: 35.2 x 50 cm
Gift of Donald Maclaren, Ottawa, 1990
National Gallery of Canada (no. 30821)
https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=38584