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23rd August 2022, 11:52 AM #1SENIOR MEMBER
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Floor Planers
I have come across this painting, The Floor Planers by Gustave Caillbotte (1875) Looks like hard work!
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23rd August 2022, 12:30 PM #2
They are using scrapers, that would be hell on the hands, fingers, back and knees and given the year probably only earning 1/6d or 2/- (15 to 20 cents) a day
Looks like they are scraping a finish off the boards so a new stain/finish can be appliedThe person who never made a mistake never made anything
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Ray
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23rd August 2022, 03:44 PM #3
My knees hurt just looking at that.
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John
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24th August 2022, 01:45 AM #4China
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Back then people were not afraid of bit of hard work.
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24th August 2022, 09:30 AM #5
Your right China, except for those yanks we could all be on our knees.
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24th August 2022, 12:09 PM #6
Looks like the boards have cupped and there taking off the highs with the scrapers
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24th August 2022, 01:24 PM #7
On closer inspection it looks like the bloke on the right is planing off the highs from cupping.
The centre guy is the scraping the boards flat.
Dunno what the bloke on the left is up to?
Theres a hammer for punching down the nails between the first two.
Its nice when an artist includes the details.
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24th August 2022, 07:19 PM #8
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25th August 2022, 03:01 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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at least they're staying true to their chippy roots and on the drink while on the job
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26th August 2022, 01:23 PM #10SENIOR MEMBER
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Wow!
Amazing!!
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27th August 2022, 03:08 PM #11
Looks like they have a good drop there to keep them motivated as well!
Johnno
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27th August 2022, 05:46 PM #12
I'd need a bigger bottle of wine!
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Those don't look like shavings off a scraper. I suspect the guy on the right is using a smoother (you can see the horn in the left hand) and the guy in the middle is cleaning up with a scraper, but it's held differently so it may be some sort of pull scraper plane... And I think the guy on the left is filling voids left behind. Overall it looks like a floor restoration job somewhere in France.
Much less hard work with a couple generous glasses of wine in the belly...
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28th August 2022, 04:20 PM #15
That is a fairly famous painting and has moved around major art museums in Paris including the Louvre. For the last 35 years it has been in the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
It was painted in 1875 and probably depicts the renovation of the artists studio and home in central Paris.
Les raboteurs de parquet - Wikipedia
Caillebotte also did another version of the painting in 1876:
Caillebotte.jpg (Private Collection)
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