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This oil on canvas is a portrait from 1887 by British artist Alfred Mendoza. It features a young woman smoking a cigarette in a relaxed manner, most likely Elizabeth Mendoza, the artist's sister. Elizabeth was married to Moses Coronel Pereira, a cigar manufacturer, and they lived in the same area as Alfred, which was home to a large Jewish community and poor immigrants. This work is signed and dated in the lower left corner. Original frame in gilt wood and plaster. An incomplete label on the back identifies the Roberts Gallery located at 759 Yonge St. in Toronto. Founded in 1842, by 1870 it was a renowned gallery dealing with British, European and Canadian art and producing high-quality frames. Throughout its 180 years of activity to date, it has had different locations within the same city, the one on Yonge St. corresponding to the period from 1948 to the late 1950s.
Alfred Moses "Mordecai" Mendoza was an English painter and sculptor of Spanish-Sephardic Jewish origin whose ancestors emigrated from Seville in the 18th century. Born in 1860 in Spitalfields, a district of the East End of London, his father was a keeper of the Jewish cemetery at Mile End, London, activity that Alfred also did for an indeterminate time. Little is known of his life and artistic training, but he is listed as an artist in the 1881 census and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887 and in Cannes, France in 1907. Married in 1897 to Annie Harriet Dobby, the Mendoza family resided in Tynemouth, Northumberland, but has also lived in France, South America, and Bournemouth, a seaside resort town near Dorset, England. In the 1901 census he is listed as an artist, painter and sculptor. His pictorial work covers almost exclusively portraits and genre scenes, among them, the portrait he made of His Majesty King George V in 1917. Alfred Mendoza died in 1925 in the Kensington area of London.
His son Montague Philip Mendoza (1898-1973) was also a painter, as well as a comic book artist, illustrator, and political cartoonist who sometimes worked under the pseudonyms Flam or Flambo. Born in Dalston, East London, he served as a private in the British Army from 1914 to 1920. After World War I and during World War II, he became a popular poster designer. In 1951 he became a comic book artist, achieving great popularity.
Also noteworthy, Alfred Mendoza was the great-grandson of Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), a prominent and well-regarded English boxer and boxing instructor in the 1780s and 1790s. The British actor and comedian Peter Sellers (1925-1980) was also a direct descendant of the boxer.
Sources: Wikipedia; Art Uk; England Census; Bearalley; Lambiek; Dictionary of Neglected Artist Working 1880-1950; Roberts Gallery, Toronto.
Artist: Alfred Mendoza (1860-1925).
Signed and dated in the lower left.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 51 x 41 cm. / 20 x 16 in.
Frame: 71 x 61 cm. / 28 x 24 in. Very good condition.
Provenance: Ottawa, Canada.
Intimate portrait depicting a young woman in profile, dressed in street clothes and reclining on a pillow. It is almost certainly a self-portrait of the artist. Unlike the rest of her works (signed by A. Lefèvre), this portrait dated 1881 is signed only with her name, which suggests that it was not painted for exhibition, but for herself or for private use. Pastel on paper, in very good condition, with oval passe-partout. Gilt frame. Note: this work has no protective glass.
Marie Augustine Alice Lefèvre was a painter of pastel portraits and miniatures. She was born in Wasigny (Ardennes) on April 30, 1859. The daughter of a civil servant from the Ministry of Finance, the family later moved to Orléans. She studied art at the Académie des Champs - Elysées and the Académie Julian in Paris, being a pupil of, among others, Louis Boutet de Monvel and Jean-Paul Laurens. She exhibited at the Salon of the Society of French Artists in 1888, 1889 and 1890 and was a drawing teacher.
Alice Lefèvre died in Paris on September 30, 1890 at the age of 31 following a painful surgical operation. She is buried in Orleans Cemetery.
Source: Archives de France.
Artist: Alice Lefèvre (1859-1890)
Signed and dated in the lower right area.
Medium: Pastel on paper.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 61 x 46 cm. / 24 x 18 in. (sheet); 47 x 37 cm. (view) / 18 ½ x 14 ½ in. (view).
Frame: 66 x 57 cm. / 26 x 22 1/2 in. Gilt wood, very good condition.
Origin: France.
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This vintage oil on canvas painting by André Boyer, depicts a view of writer Georges Courteline’s residence at 89 rue Lepic in Montmartre, Paris. Other notable artists and writers, such as Vincent Van Gogh, resided on this street as well. Additionally, the first automobile by Louis Renault was built on this narrow Parisian street in 1898. This painting was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1958 as indicated by a label and stamp on the back.
André Boyer was a French painter, illustrator and cabinetmaker-decorator, born in Paris on April 15, 1909 and died in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine) on June 2, 1981. Son of a single mother, he trained and worked as a cabinetmaker well into the 1940s, creating Art Deco-style furniture, which is very sought-after nowadays. Having alternated his career with painting for years, he devoted himself fully to painting from 1950. Pertaining to the New School of Paris, he was a regular painter in the Montmartre quarter, where he drew inspiration for many of his works. These stand out for their great strength and energy, and use of bold, heavy strokes in the style of Marcel Utrillo. Later, he depicted several scenes of the boulevards of Paris, set in the Belle Époque period. His works are highly sought after by collectors, especially in the United States.
Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux or Moineau, known as Georges Courteline, was a French novelist, poet and playwright, born June 25, 1858 in Tours and died June 25, 1929 in Paris. Son of the writer Jules Moinaux, Courteline stood out in the field of aphorism and his romantic or theatrical works are characterized by his strong satirical vein, often irreverent towards the hypocritical Parisian bourgeois society to which he himself belonged and knew so well.
Source: Wikipedia; Archives de France.
Artist: André Boyer (1909-1981).
Signed in the lower right corner.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 67 x 54 cm. / 26 ¼ x 21 ¼ in.
Frame: Unframed.
Origin: France.
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This original 1942 landscape oil painting, created by André Chabert, depicts a French stone farmhouse set in the scenic surroundings of Grenoble, once the capital of Dauphiné. Painted on wood and signed by the artist, it also includes a handwritten note in French on the back: Type Ferme Dauphinoise (surroundings of Grenoble) Reconstitution.
André Léon Chabert was a French painter and poster and advertising designer. He was born in Grenoble on February 6, 1895. A pupil of the landscape painter André Albertin, he regularly exhibited oil and watercolour landscapes at the Salon of the Society of Friends of the Arts in his hometown from 1919. He combined his artistic career with his professional activity as an architect.
André Léon died in Grenoble on January 20, 1961.
Sources: Pierre Le Quéau, 20 ans de sociologie de l'art: Bilan et perspectives (1985); Archives de France.
Artist: André Chabert (1895 - 1961)
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 30 x 50 cm. / 12 x 19 ¾ in.
Frame: 43 x 62 cm. / 17 x 24 ½ in. Wood, very good condition.
Origin: France.
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Married ballerina and choreographer Ruth Page in 1983, Andre Delfau died in Chicago, Illinois, on January 4, 2000, at the age of 85.
Élisabeth Claire Toulemont was born on 8 March 1888 in Paris and died on 16 March 1971 in the same city. An eccentric dancer of the Belle Époque and a French writer, former mistress of Charles Dullin and close friend of Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob, she is best known as the wife of the writer Marcel Jouhandeau, whom she married in Paris on 4 June 1929. She appears in the writer's work under the first name of Élise.
Sources: FindaGrave.com; Askart; Chicago Gallery News; Archives de France; Wikipedia.
Artist: André Delfau (1914-2000)
Signed and dated in lower right.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 61 x 50 cm. / 24 x 19 3/4 in.
Frame : 80 x 69.5 cm. / 31 ½ x 27 ¼ in. Wood, very good condition.
Origin: France.
This is an original engraving of a bust portrait depicting Antoine Court de Gébelin (1725-1784), a French Protestant theologian, mythologist, and grammarian. Created in 1776 by expert Antoine Louis Romanet, after collaborating with Mlle. Linot. The bottom is inscribed with: "A Paris chez Romanet rue de la Harpe vis a vis les Jacobins".
Antoine Court de Gibelin was born near Nîmes on 5 September 1728 and died in Paris on 12 May 1784 at the age of 59. He was the son of pastor and theology professor Antoine Court, founder of the Séminaire de Lausanne, a clandestine establishment where future French pastors were trained (Protestantism had been banned there since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes). A physiocrat thinker and freemason, he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle and the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen.
Antoine-Louis Romanet (Paris, 7 January 1742 - Saint-Maurice, 1 April 1807) was a French draughtsman, engraver and miniature painter. He was the cousin of the wife of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille (1715-1808), who trained him in the art of engraving. He exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance from 1779 to 1787.
Sources: Wikipedia; Archives de France.
Artist: Antoine-Louis Romanet (1742-1807)
Medium: Etching on laid paper.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 35 x 26 cm. / 13 ¾ x 10 ¼ in. (sheet). 27 x 19 cm. / 10 ½ x 7 ½ in. (plate).
Frame: 43 x 33 cm. / 17 x 13 in. New, classic style, acid-free matting and glass.
Origin: France.
The woman depicted is not precisely identified, but the portrait was once part of a pair entitled "Herr und Dame". The two portraits were sold separately at an auction in Munich in 2004. The man in the other portrait represented either a rich landowner of the city of Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) or an administrative charge of the imperial family of Austria, according to the auction catalogue. The woman in this portrait would have been his wife. She sits resting her right arm on an Empire style table, with a Doric column and draped green silk curtain in the backdrop. She wears a greyish-blue satin décolleté dress with puff shoulders, a transparent lace bonnet with an extremely delicate floral motif, and a pink mousseline shawl wrapped around her back and left arm. Her black hair is coiffed in the corkscrew style popular at the time. Oil on canvas, probably relined, and recently cleaned. Original frame in carved and gilded wood.
Artist: Anton Bayer (1768-1833)
Signed and dated in the lower right corner "A. Bayer, 1822".
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 96 x 74 cm. / 37 3/4 x 29 in.
Frame: 116 x 93 cm. / 45 1/2 x 36 1/2 in. Very good condition.
Origin: Germany.
Arthur Miles was a British Victorian era portrait and genre painter born in Lambeth (South London) 10 January 1827 and died in Stroud Green (North London) 22 June 1904. He was the son of Thomas Miles, a composer and music teacher, and brother of Leonidas Clint Miles (1839-1898), a landscape painter. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1851-1872, at The British Institution between 1862-1867 and at the Royal Society of British Artists between 1859 and 1880. One of his works is in the National Gallery, London.
Charlotte Augusta Southwick, daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia Southwick, was born in New York City in 1813. Jonathan Southwick was a successful New York merchant who had accumulated a large fortune in business. Charlotte’s lineage can be traced back to some of the most distinguished U.S. Colonial families, the Washingtons and the Elys.
Charlotte was twice married. Her first husband was Mr. William McMurray who died but a few months after their marriage, leaving her a widow at the age of eighteen. She remarried soon after in 1842 to William Coventry Waddell (1802-1884), a wealthy lawyer and financier who held various political positions in the State Department during the administration of President Andrew Jackson, and in 1832 was appointed U.S. marshal in New York. Widower of Julia Ann Cobb, Mr. Waddell had ties to some of England’s noble families, being directly descended from Lord Daubeney, of the time of Henry VII and the earls of Coventry. A few years following his marriage to Charlotte, he built a new residence on Murray Hill, a Gothic Revival mansion occupying an entire block at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-seventh Street. Mr. and Mrs. Waddell entertained the country’s celebrities, and the most distinguished visitors from foreign lands. They also spent summers at Saratoga Springs, the fashionable resort of the times.
A social leader in the broadest sense in the early 1850s, Mrs. Waddell was the first American woman to establish a New York Salon. Before the era of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and Mamie Fish, Charlotte Waddell dominated as the queen of Manhattan society. John W. Jordan wrote in 1911: "No record is to be found which deals with the social history of New York City in the nineteenth century as a whole, and which does not pay homage to this Salon and its hostess". To the drawing-room of this most charming and magnetic of women came Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Washington Irving, Thackeray, and many others who in their literary, artistic or diplomatic careers had become famous. In the panic of the monetary crisis of 1857 Mr. Waddell lost his fortune and he was compelled to sacrifice his beautiful home on Murray Hill, moving to a residence two miles north of Newburgh on the Hudson. A few years later, they eventually retrieved a portion of their fortune. retaining her social prestige, Mrs. Waddell continued to make her hospitable home a recognized intellectual center. After a prolonged and brave battle against an ovarian tumor, she died in 1891 at her home at 340 W. 43rd Street, New York City. She is buried in the family vault in downtown Manhattan’s Trinity Churchyard.
Sources: Benezit, Dictionary of Artists; The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940; The Dictionary of Victorian Painters; British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections; Kurt of Gerolstein: Arthur Miles, Victorian Artist (2021). Emma Willard and her pupils, Fifty years of Troy female seminary, 1822-1872 (1898); The Queens of American Society (1873); John W. Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (1911); The Old Merchants of New York City, Vol. 4, Walter Barrett, 1863; S. Waddell-Smith.
Artist: Arthur Miles (1827-1904).
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition. Relined and restored professionally in the early 1980s.
Dimensions: 76 x 64 cm. / 30 x 25 ¼ in.
Frame: 95 x 83 cm. / 37 ½ x 32 ¾ in. Gilt wood, oval aperture, very good condition.
Provenance: Private Collection, Ottawa.
Portrait of M François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, Archbishop Duke of Cambray, Prince of the Holy Empire, Count of Cambrésis. Etching after Joseph Vivien, by St. Aubin.
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon was born at Fénelon castle, in Périgord, on August 6, 1651. In 1689 he became Tutor to the Dauphin, the duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. He was appointed archbishop of Cambrai in 1695.
Fénelon preached at the age of fifteen, was a religious writer and a mystical Christian philosopher. He left fifty-five works, of which at least two place him at the forefront of French literature: The Treatise on the Existence of God and Telemachus. Friend of Bossuet, he was later embroiled in a controversy with him which lasted three years and at the end of which he succumbed to the accusation of quietism brought against him by his terrible adversary; condemned by the court of Rome, Fénelon accepted this judgment with admirable humility (1699). He was exiled from the court and retired to his archbishopric; sick from the concussion felt in a car accident, he died six days later, on January 8, 1715. His eulogy was written by La Harpe and Alembert. The Scotsman Ramsay, Cardinal de Bausset and Abbé Gosselin each wrote a History of Fénelon.
Augustin de Saint-Aubin (Paris, January 3, 1736 - Paris, November 9, 1808) was a French painter and printmaker. Member of a family of artists, he was the son of Gabriel-Germain de Saint-Aubin, embroiderer, and brother of Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin and Louis-Michel de Saint-Aubin, all artists. He was first trained with his older brother Gabriel, then studied with Étienne Fessard (1755) and Laurent Cars (1764). He worked with Michelangelo Slodtz on "The Little Pleasures of the King". He devoted himself mainly to drawing and engraving, working as a chronicler of the society of his time: Concert, Bal de Gala (1773). He created a gallery of medallion portraits of famous people from Antiquity to his time. In 1777, he was appointed engraver of the Royal Library.
Sources: Académie française; Enciclopedia del Arte Garzanti, 1991.
Artist: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1808).
Medium: Copper etching.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 30 x 20 cm. / 12 x 8 in. (sheet); 23 x 16 cm. / 9 x 6 1/4 in. (view).
Frame: 36 x 29 cm. / 14 ¼ x 11 ½ in. Black wood, classic style.
Origin: France.
This remarkable baroque still life depicts a table draped in rich cloths: a Prussian blue silk drapery and a brocaded silk curtain, flowing over a white table cloth. To the left of the arrangement is an intricate jewel embossed flower vase filled with violet and white lilacs, yellow daisies and pink roses. A matching jewel embossed and enameled ewer is on the left. In the center, an ornate silver fruit bowl is piled high with an abundance of grapes, apples, peaches and pears, some overflowing out of the bowl and onto the table. In the forefront at the edge of the table is a single gold goblet. A stunning composition.
Béla Balogh (1909-1980) was an autodidact Hungarian painter who specialized in still life compositions of fruit and flowers. Often that composition would consist of antique elements such as silver bowls, tankards, vases and ewers, or at times only a floral arrangement as the focal point of the painting. We have found little biographical information about this artist to date, but will continue researching. However, he appears to have been quite a prolific artist, judging from the auction records dating back to the early 90s. And since the early 00s, his paintings have been sold all over Europe and North America at reputed auction houses such as Bonhams and Christie’s.
Artist: Béla Balogh (1909-1980)
Signed in the lower right corner: “Balogh Béla”
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Excellent condition.
Dimensions: 79 x 61 cm. / 31 x 24 in.
Frame: 99,5 x 79 cm. / 39 x 31 ½ in. Sculpted, distressed wood finish, off-white and gold. Good general condition.
Provenance: Private collection, Canada.
This post-impressionist landscape oil painting depicts an old farm in Brittany and is signed by the artist in the lower left corner. It was created around 1930.
According to historical records, Yves Pierre Bertrand Py, a talented French artist, was born on March 20th, 1895 in Belfort (Cher). Despite starting his studies in the classics, Py's passion for drawing and painting led him to abandon his formal education and focus solely on his artwork. Falsifying his age, he gained entry into the prestigious National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
Bertrand Py's frequent galleries at the Louvre Museum and sketches of masters like Rembrandt, Velazquez and Vermeer have honed his skills, resulting in a unique neo-realism style with influences from post-impressionism. Influenced and driven by both French and British art movements of the early 20th century, Bertrand Py noted a penchant for portraiture, landscape and still life.
He began exhibiting his work at the age of 25 at the Salon of French Artists and in 1929 became a member of the Salon d’Automne.
Bertand Py died on October 2, 1973 in Bry-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne).
Sources: Archives de France.
Artiste: Bertrand Py (1895-1973).
Signed in the lower left corner.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 38 x 55 cm. / 15 x 21 1/2 in.
Frame: 45 x 62 cm. / 17 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. Very good condition.
Origin: France.
This portrait depicts an unidentified magistrate and adviser to the Parliament of Brittany. Dressed in traditional attire, the figure exudes authority and importance. The white-gloved hand holding a black hat further emphasizes their high status. A must-have for history and art enthusiasts.
Under the Kingdom of France’s Old Regime, parliaments dealt with matters relating to public order, royal legislation, finances, assistance to the population and public education. They also served as presidial courts of appeal and tried serious criminals. The nobles come under the jurisdiction of parliament.
This oil on canvas painting has undergone professional restoration. During the cleaning process, the artist’s signature and date were discovered on the reverse: "Baziray pinxit 1747". Its magnificent gilded wood and plaster frame (French Regency-Louis XV period) has also been restored.
Charles Baziray was a French portrait painter, student or follower of Nicolas de Largillière. Born in Paris around 1690, he worked as a painter from 1707 to 1713 at the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins in Paris, under the direction of Pierre Mathieu, the King’s painter. From 1718, Baziray moved to Brittany, notably to Nantes, Rennes and Saint-Malo, where he enjoyed a certain degree of notoriety among the high society of the region and was commissioned numerous portraits. Married in 1726 to Anne Penet, daughter of the Lord of La Pallière, Baziray died on January 29, 1757 at the Château de Rosanbo, property of the wealthy and influential Le Peletier family. He is buried in the Lanvellec parish church, near the castle.
Sources: Benezit, Dictionary of Artists; Archives de France.
Artist: Charles Baziray (h.1690-1757).
Signed and dated on back “Baziray Pinxit 1747”.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 82,5 x 65 cm. / 32 ½ x 25 ½ in.
Frame: 102 x 86 cm. / 40 x 34 in. Ornate gilded wood and plaster frame, in excellent condition.
Origin: France.
Original intaglio print titled La demande acceptée (The Request Granted), after Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié Paris, 1735-1784). Engraved by Charles-Clément Bervic, engraver of the King and the Royal Academies of Paris and Rouen.
Rustic interior with young man sitting next to a woman and asking for her daughter's hand in marriage; the daughter stands next to her mother while the father and the other children are sitting on the right. – Beneath the image, on either side of a cartouche with coat of arms, a dedication (in French) reads:” Dedicated to His Serene Electoral Highness Monsignor Charles Théodore, // Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Upper and Lower Bavaria Archidapifer and Elector of the Holy Empire, Duke of Juliers, Cleve and Berg ... By ... Ch. Cl. Bervic”.
Charles Clément Balvay (23 May 1756, Paris – 23 March 1822, Paris), known as Bervic, was a French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin. He served his first apprenticeship under Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, then left aged 14 for the studio of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille. When he was 18, he won first prize for drawing at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected a member in 1784. He became a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1803. He won many prizes and his drawing talents were particularly appreciated.
Jean-Charles Damour (1731-?) was an intaglio printer in Paris.
Sources: British Museum; BNF; Archives de France.
Artist: Charles-Clément Balvay, dit Bervic (1756-1822).
Medium: Engraving, mounted on cardboard
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 63 x 73.5 cm. / 22 ¾ x 29 in. (sheet) / 50 x 62.7 cm. – 19 ¾ x 24 ½ in. (image).
Frame: 76 x 85 cm. / 30 x 33 ½ in. Gilt wood, matting and glass.
Origin: France.
A vintage still life pastel painting by Claire Demartinécourt is a charming depiction of a vase brimming with vibrant orange, mauve and white flowers, evoking the artistic spirit of the 1950s. This beautiful piece is enhanced by its Montparnasse style frame, expertly crafted from sculpted wood.
Claire Demartinécourt-Modret was a French painter. Born on January 2, 1896 in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), she was the daughter of a retired infantry commander, property owner and knight of the Legion of Honour. She studied painting at the National School of Fine Arts in Dijon and exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants from 1929 onward. She mainly paints still lifes of flowers and landscapes, indiscriminately signing Demartinécourt and Demartinécourt-Modret (her maternal surname). She died in Is-sur-Tille (Burgundy) on February 16, 1981 at the age of 85.
Sources: Benezit, Dictionary of Artists; Archives de France.
Artist: Claire Demartinécourt (1896-1981)
Unsigned.
Medium: Pastel on paper.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 32 x 26 cm /11 ½ x 10 ½ in.
Frame: 42.5 x 37.5 cm. / 16 ¾ x 14 ¾ in. Very good condition.
Origin: France.
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This elegant oil painting by Claudine Déséglise captures the mundane scene of a racecourse, probably at Longchamps in Paris. Exhibited in 1953 at the Salon des Independants, this original piece is signed by the artist and displayed in a modern black wood frame. A timeless and captivating addition to any art collection.
Claudine Marie Jeanne Déséglise was a French naïf painter. She was born on 7 December 1917 in Vire (Calvados), where her father, a military doctor, was stationed during the war. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She had her studio in Montmartre and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants between 1937 and 1953. Her work mainly comprised genre scenes and still lifes.
Claudine Déséglise died on 24 August 1990 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Source: Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre, Roussard 1999; Archives de France.
Artist: Claudine Déséglise (1917-1990).
Signed in the lower right corner.
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 65 x 54 cm. / 25 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.
Frame: 68,5 x 57,5 cm. / 7 x 22 3/4. Very good condition with some signs of use.
Provenance: Sweden.
Frontispiece of the first volume of The Law of War and Peace, Divided into Three Books by Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and translated from Latin into French by Antoine de Courtin (1622-1685), with an allegorical representation with the bust of King Louis XIV, who is glorified there. Title, with vignette, and signed by P. Sevin and C. Vermeulen and dated 1687. Note that this frontispiece does not appear in the successive editions of 1688, 1703, 1746, 1759 and 1768.
Cornelis Vermeulen or Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen was a 17th century Flemish engraver, born around 1644 in Antwerp in the province of Flanders in Belgium. He trained in Peeter Clouwet's studio. He worked many times in Paris during short stays but without really settling in the French capital. His portrait engravings and book illustrations made him famous. He died around 1708 in Antwerp.
Pierre-Paul Sevin was born May 8, 1646 in Tournon-sur-Rhône (Ardèche) and died in the same city on February 2, 1710. He was a history painter and illustrator of allegorical compositions in the reign of Louis XIV. Born into a family of painters and first trained by his father, Pierre-Paul Sevin became a distinguished painter, decorator, illustrator and scenographer. On the death of his father, the young artist entered the Jesuit college in Lyon where he met Claude-François Ménestrier (1631-1705) and forged a long friendship with him. On the recommendation of Ménestrier, and with the help of the royal painter Charles Le Brun, Sevin was made a resident of the French Academy in Rome, recently created by King Louis XIV in 1666. While in Rome, Sevin documented into drawings many events that took place in the city, for which he also provided his own decorative motifs. In Venice, he recorded important processions and festivities that took place in the Lagoon during the first years of the 1670s. On his return to Paris, Sevin, in collaboration with Ménestrier, obtained numerous royal commissions, providing designs for ceremonial decorations for births, weddings, funerals and princely entrances.
Sources: Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 1999 Edition; Bibliotheca Visseriana, 1925; Archives de France.
Artists: Cornelis Vermeulen (1644-1708) and Pierre-Paul Sevin (1646-1710).
Signed and dated 1687.
Medium: Etching on paper.
Condition: Very good condition.
Dimensions: 25 x 18.7 cm. / 9 ¾ x 7 ½ in. (sheet).
Frame: 52 x 47 cm. / 20 ½ x 18 ½ in. Wood, very good condition.
Origin: France.