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By Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
French, 1803-1860 |
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Description
Village Scene, signed, signed again on the reverse
Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
33.5x25.5 cm
Biography
b. Paris, 3 May 1803; d. Fontainebleau, 23 Aug 1860(. French painter, draughtsman and printmaker. With his brother Maurice-Alexandre (180452), the art critic and essayist, he spent some years of his youth at Orsay, in Picardy, in order to learn to rise early and know the hard life of the fields. The artwork of the peasants stimulated an interest in drawing. He entered the atelier of Etienne Bouhot (17801862) in 1816. Towards the end of 1818 he left Bouhot to study under Alexandre-Denis Abel de Pujol, quitting his studio in 181920 in order to embark upon a career as an independent professional artist. He had been an inattentive student, who thought that the formula of instruction of the academic doctrine reduced the least examination almost to the proportions of silliness. Memories of Orsay remained his point of departure throughout his working life, and in this sense he was a self-trained artist. Nevertheless, he admired, and learnt from, the art of such diverse artists as Raphael, Titian, Giovanni da Bologna, Poussin, Rembrandt, Géricault and Léopold Robert.(The Grove Dictionary of Art).
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Village Scene
Estimate: $2,000/$3,000
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