“Watercolor Artist at the Louvre” is a painting by the French artist Pascal Danyan-Bouvre from the collection of the State Hermitage . Not represented in the permanent exhibition.
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| Pascal Danyang-Bouvre | ||
| "Watercolor artist in the Louvre . " C. 1891 | ||
| fr Jeune Femme-aquarelliste au Louvre | ||
| Wood, oil. 35.5 × 30.5 cm | ||
| State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg | ||
| ( inv. GE-9787 ) | ||
The picture shows a young woman in a pink dress; she sits on a high stool and paints a fan located on an easel . Behind her is a picture of Antoine Watteau “ Pilgrimage to the Island of Kiferu ”. On the lower left, on the canvas of the painting, leaning against the wall, PAJ Dagnan is inscribed and a cartoonized drawing of the head of a man in a bandana is made , bearing some resemblance to the artist himself; A. G. Kostenevich believes that it is a cartoon for the close friend of the artist Gustave Courtois, with whom Danyan-Bouvre taught at the Colarossi Academy [1] .
The painting was painted around 1891 and was auctioned by Bussaton in Paris , where, in all probability, it was purchased for Emperor Alexander III [2] . It was stored in the collection of paintings of the Grand Gatchina Palace , then it was in Pavlovsk , from where in 1963 it was transferred to the State Hermitage [3] .
In July 1883, Hazlitt's engraving “In the Louvre”, made from a preparatory drawing for the painting, was printed in L'Illustration magazine. In addition to the main character of the picture, two other characters are depicted there: in place of the stretchers, an elderly duo sits with a book in her hands and looks at a man with a sketchbook, who stopped near the artist [1] .
The main researcher of the Department of Western European Fine Art of the State Hermitage, Doctor of Arts A. G. Kostenevich, in his essay on French art, analyzing the picture, wrote:
Bastien-Lepage , Danyang-Bouvre, Lermitt and other artists with brilliant academic skills, who did not want to lag behind the century, easily exchanged Old Testament plots for scenes of everyday life and, moreover, turned to realism for their reproduction. The illegibility of these painters could not but annoy the impressionists and their supporters, especially since, taking over the discoveries of the impressionists, the same Danyan-Bouvre successfully overtook the inveterate academics and won many awards that the impressionists could only dream of [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Kostenevich A.G. Art of France 1860-1950. Painting. Picture. Sculpture: in two volumes. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the State Hermitage Museum, 2008. - T. 2. - P.38.
- ↑ Berezina V. French painting of the first half and middle of the XIX century in the Hermitage. Scientific catalog. - L .: Art, 1983 .-- S. 112.
- ↑ State Hermitage Museum. - Danyan-Bouvre, Pascal Adolphe Jean. "Watercolor artist in the Louvre."
- ↑ Kostenevich A.G. Art of France 1860-1950. Painting. Picture. Sculpture: in two volumes. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of the State Hermitage Museum, 2008. - T. 1. - P.101.