(1777 Lyon -1852 Ecully) Montaigne Visiting Le Tasse Oil on canvas 130 x 100 cm Circa 1822 PROVENANCE: Lyon, the artist’s descendants BIBLIOGRAPHY: Marie-Claude Chaudonneret, Fleury Richard et Pierre Révoil, La Peinture Troubadour, Arthena, 1980 Having chosen the stairwell of the crypt of the Lyon Church of Saint-Irenaeus, Richard depicts the meeting of Michel de…
View of the Small Town of La Cava, in the Kingdom of Naples, Seen from the Salerno Side Oil on canvas 71.5 x 98 cm Signed lower left: P. Chauvin Circa 1810 PROVENANCE : Possibly the collection of the Duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838); by inheritance, Alexandre-Edmond (1787-1872) (his nephew); Napoléon-Louis (1811-1898) (his great-nephew); possibly the…
CALLED JAMES BERTRAND (Lyon 1823 – Orsay 1887) Lesbia end the Sparrow Oil on canvas 110 x 65 cm Signed and dated, lower left : JAMES BERTRAND.1875. PROVENANCE : Scottish, private collection EXHIBITION : Salon de 1875, n°185 After growing up in Lyon, Jean-Baptiste Bertrand joined the studio of Claude Bonnefond, a former pupil of…
Dusk on the Ile d’Herblay Oil on canvas 33 x 46 cm Signed and dated lower right Guilloux 95 PROVENANCE: Private collection, France A self-taught artist fascinated by the color theories of Chevreuil and Odgen Rood, Guilloux exhibited for the first time in 1892, at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants. The eight works that he…
Two studies of a man Oil on canvas 38,5 x 50 cm Executed circa 1840-45 PROVENANCE : Collection of the artist ; his sale, Paris, 20 march-1st april 1876 (stamp on the reverse of the stretcher) Pils studied painting under Lethière, then in the studio of Picot, winning the Prix de Rome in Paris, after…
Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (1780 Grasse-Paris 1850) The Triumph of Homer Oil on canvas Signed lower left: A. Fragonard Circa 1830-1840 Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard, whose ambitious, dramatic and dynamic compositions always set him apart from the precious, virtuoso meticulousness of the Troubadour style, mixed different episodes from the Trojan War here, in a vast scene peopled by several…
Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet (1759 – Paris – 1842) Portrait of a Woman and her Child Oil on canvas 100 x 82 cm Signed and dated : Bouchet 1810 Bouchet was one of the countless students (it is said that there were more than 500) of one of the most prestigious of those mentors, David, and was awarded…
(1750 Toulouse – Paris 1819) L’éruption du Vésuve 65,5 x 80,8 cm Oil on canvas 1814 Provenance : Private collection Exhibition : « Pompei@Madre », Museo d’arte contemporeana donnaregina, 2017-2018 Bibliography : Probably Geneviève Lacambre, L’Eruption du Vésuve par Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes in La Revue du Louvre, 5/6 1980, pp. 314, note 2 After a long period of dormancy, Vesuvius…
(1810 Nancy – 1881 Mustapha) View of the Port and the Town of Fécamp from the Shore Oil on canvas 160 x 228 cm Signed JULES NOËL lower left Monogrammed and dated 1859. J.N. on a barrel Provenance : Sale of the artist, Hôtel Drouot, 26 march 1860, The shore of Fécamp, 163 x 227 cm, 1.100 frs ; Private…
(1843 Paris 1896) A visit to the Museum Oil on canvas 103 x 48 cm 1873 Signed : E Duez Duez, like Gervex and Alfred Stevens, had a strong preference for elegant subject matter; much of his work features young ladies glimpsed at their leisure activities at a time when tourism and travel was just…
