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"L'Eglise et la paroisse du village", Raymond Thibèsar
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Pre 1940 item# 881573 (stock# B561202914 )
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This Oil on Canvas, "L'Eglise et la paroisse du village", Raymond Thibèsart, (French,1874 - 1968) is in Excellent Condition. Son of an affluent family, Raymond Thibesart was born in Troyes, France on May 2, 1874. Soon after, the Thibesart's moved to the small town of Enghien outside of Paris. It was here that Raymond first began to study art with Venezuelan Impressionist master Emile Boggio at the age of eleven. He later began his formal art education at the Lycée Rollin in Paris. He entered the l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1894, followed by the Acadèmie Julian in Paris where his teachers Jules Lefevre and Tony Robert Fleury introduced him to the Symbolist Movement which heavily influenced the early part of his career.
At the turn of the century, Thibesart spent much time in Southern France and Italy painting with Boggio and Henri Martin. From this time on, Thibesart worked in the Post-Impressionist style. He often traveled to Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Corsica to record the landscape. With great enthusiasm and energy, he used pastels to sketch the light, the passage of the wind, the flowering trees, the mornings of white frost or snow, the agricultural work, and the aura of these lands. In the tranquility of his workshop, these colored chalk drawings allowed him to execute oil paintings that retained the spontaneity and beauty of his subjects.
Thibesart exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris where he was a Silver Medalist in 1922; at the Salon des Indépendants; and at the Salon d'Automne. He was a member of the Societé des Artistes Francais from 1897, Member Salon des Indépendents since 1905, and a member of the Salon d'Automne, Paris. His work is found in the following public and private collections: the Salon des Artistes Français, the Contempory Art Gallery, Paris, Gallery Georges Petit, Paris, the Galerie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, the National Museum of Caracus, France, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Troyes, France. Measuring Framed size is 32 1/4 x 28 1/4", Canvas Alone 23 7/8 X 19 7/8", Serious Inquiries are Welcome!
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"Virgin at the Foot of the Cross", Paul Delaroche
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Pre 1900 item# 879504 (stock# B550304011 )
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This Mesmerizing Oil on Canvas, "Virgin at the Foot of the Cross ", Paul Delaroche, (French, 1797-1856) is in Excellent Condition. In his study on Delaroche, Norman Ziff notes that the artist “was concerned with the problem of how to create religious paintings which would genuinely excite modern audiences.” On this perplexing matter he wrote to a friend: 'I have a thousand confused thoughts in my head, and not one that I dare execute. If we lived in another time, I would execute a Deposition lifesize, and I would try to prove that I know how to idealize when it comes to Our Lord and his mother; but the general poetic no longer exists. Without becoming complacent, one would not misunderstand public sentiment, if one wishes to appeal to eyes and understanding hearts. I have never prostrated myself before the fashion of the day; but I have always thought that one can produce very serious art in serving the ideas which have preoccupied our society for the last 60 years. I believe that I am as right today as yesterday. One must be a truly great genius to carry the crowd with as much fervor and sympathy before the last goodbyes of the Virgin to her son as before [Marie-Antoinette], martyred yesterday, condemned to death by political passions.”(Louis Ulbach, "Paul Delaroche," Revue de Paris, XXXVI, April 1, 1857, p. 359; quoted by Ziff, pp. 242-43).
This specific theme was in fact treated by the artist twice, first in the present painting of 1851, then in a larger canvas of 1853 now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège. The pose of the Virgin is identical in both works, but in the Liège version (which measures 176 x 130 cm) her entire figure is visible as are the gnarled feet of Christ nailed to the cross. The setting of Golgotha is evident and the intent, it would seem, narrative. By contrast in our picture Christ is present only by implication -- the red trail of blood on the cross -- and the focus is on the intense emotional state of the weeping Virgin.
The present painting achieved some celebrity in the nineteenth century, as witnessed by its reproduction in such diverse forms as KPM porcelain plaques and mosaics.
Norman D. Ziff, Paul Delaroche; A Study in Nineteenth-Century French History Painting. New York-London 1977, p. 299, cat. no. 187
Measuring Framed size is 36 x 28", Canvas Alone is 24 1/2 X 16", Serious Inquiries are Welcome!
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