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1500 to 1900: European and American Fine Art

Thu, Sep 10, 2020 11:00AM EDT
Lot 58

Charles Victor Thirion (1833-1878): Paysanne de la Creuse

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
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Oil on canvas mounted on board, 1874, signed 'V C Thirion' and dated lower left.

52 x 37 1/2 in., 68 x 50 in. (frame).

 

Note: Thirion was an early student of William Bouguereau, one of the most successful artists of the nineteenth century whose Academic style and choice of subjects Thirion would follow throughout his career. Thirion established himself as a painter of genre subjects, primarily the idealised rustic peasant genre that became increasingly popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. Thirion painted intimate scenes of peasant life, but in contrast to his contemporaries, he painted them in the classical Salon style he inherited from Bouguereau. Paysanne de la Creuze is a fine example of this style. Imbued with sentiment, the subject is carefully observed in an intimate moment and rendered in a beautiful and delicate hand. 

Exhibited: Probably, Paris, Salon des Artistes Francais, 1874, no. 1709.

Literature: Probably, Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie, and Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire Général des Artistes de l'Ecole Francais, vol. 2, p. 565; Probably, Le Monde IllustréParis, 1874, vol. XXXV, p. 58; Probably, Nestor Paturot, Le Salon de 1874, Paris, 1874, p. 247-8; Descriptive Catalogue of the Art Gallery of the James Prendergast Library Association, 1906, no. 20 (as Industry and incorrectly attributed to Eugene Romain Thirion); Katherine E. Manthorne, The Mirror Up to Nature: A Catalogue of 19th and 20th Century Paintings in the Collection of the James Prendergast Library Association, 1982, p. 51 (as Industry and incorrectly attributed to Eugene Romain Thirion).

Condition

Canvas cut from original stretcher and mounted on plywood. Some craquelure and surface soiling. Rubbing around the edges under the frame. Not withstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.