CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (PARIS 1798-1876) - photo 1
CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (PARIS 1798-1876) - photo 2
CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (PARIS 1798-1876) - photo 3

CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (PARIS 1798-1876)

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Lot 35 | CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (PARIS 1798-1876)
CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (PARIS 1798-1876)
Achille donnant à Nestor le Prix de la Sagesse
huile sur toile
114 x 145,5 cm (44 7/8 x 57 ¼ in.)




Provenance

Peint pour le Prix de Rome de 1820, pour lequel Charles-Philippe Auguste Larivière obtint la Médaille d'or ;
Puis par descendance dans la famille Larivière (selon I. Loddé, 2005, op. cit. infra).
Collection particulière, Italie.
Chez Barakat Gallery, Londres, en 2004.
Chez Tommaso Brothers, Leeds ;
Acquis auprès de ceux-ci par Kevin Delahuntey.
Chez Barakat Gallery, Londres ;
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par l'actuel propriétaire, en janvier 2009.
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Alpes-Maritimes.



Literature

P. Grunchec, La peinture à l'école des beaux-arts. Les concours des Prix de Rome. 1797-1863, Paris, 1989, II, pp. 69-70 (comme 'attribué à Ch.-Ph. Larivière'), reproduit en noir et blanc p. 71, pl. 6.
I. Loddé, Charles Philippe Larivière, peintre. Sa vie, son oeuvre. 1798-1876, [thèse de doctorat], Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2005, I, p. 74, II, n°P18 (comme 'Larivière'), reproduit en noir et blanc sous le n°P18.
D. Alberge, 'Rubens and Neo-Classical Art' in M. Merrony, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, reproduit en couleurs p. 302, fig. 13 (eronnément repris sous la mention d'un tableau de Michel-Martin Drolling, The Wrath of Achilles).



Exhibited

Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), depuis juin 2011.



Further details

CHARLES-PHILIPPE AUGUSTE LARIVIÈRE (1798-1876), ACHILLES PRESENTING THE PRIZE OF WISDOM TO NESTOR, OIL ON CANVAS

Painted for the Prix de Rome, the competition organised each year by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, Achille donnant à Nestor le Prix de la Sagesse earned Charles-Philippe Auguste Larivière (1798-1876) the Gold Medal in 1820.

The subject comes from the 23rd book of Homer's Illiad. After the death of Achilles' friend Patroclus, the legendary warrior did not want to bury his corpse because of the great love he bore him. But Patroclus' spirit comes to him in a dream, begging for a funeral worthy of the companion of the Greek prince, so that his soul can return to Hades. The following day Achilles ordered that the funeral take place and organised funerary games in his honour. After awarding the prizes to the winners of the physical tests, he was left with a two-handled urn, which he gave to King Nestor, who was too old to compete but deserved to be honoured for his wisdom. The old king accepted the urn, saying “I accept this gift gladly, and my heart rejoices that you have remembered me, who is kind to you, and that you have honoured me, as it is right that I should be honoured among the Argians. May the Gods, in return, shower you with their graces!”

Like most of the other competitors for the Prix de Rome in 1820, Larivière placed Achilles and Nestor at the centre of the composition. Between these two figures is one of Nestor's sons, probably Antilochus, one of the original suitor’s for Helen’s hand. The figure seated on the right is Agamemnon, king of all Greece, and the person with his back to us on the left is probably his brother, Menelaus, Helen's husband. This touching moment is a subject perfectly suited to the Prix de Rome. In the figure of Achilles paying tribute to the wisdom of the elder king, we can see the young artist honouring his master by presenting him with his competition piece.
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Mythological painting
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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