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GEORGES-JULES-VICTOR CLAIRIN (FRENCH, 1843-1919)

Lot 36
09.10.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 30 000
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ID 1305662
Lot 36 | GEORGES-JULES-VICTOR CLAIRIN (FRENCH, 1843-1919)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
GEORGES-JULES-VICTOR CLAIRIN (FRENCH, 1843-1919)
Tambour-major de l'armée française donnant à manger aux pigeons de la place Saint-Marc à Venise
signed 'G. Clairin.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
51 x 31 7/8 in. (129.5 x 81 cm.)




Provenance

(possibly) Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 April 1894, lot 22, as Épisode de l'occupation de Venise par l'armée française sous le Premier Empire.
Carlos Juan Gonzalez, Mexico, circa 1960.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 2012.



Literature

'Chronique Artistique', La Chronique universelle, December 1890, pp. 243-244, as L'Armée française à Venise.
'Gazette du Jour', La Justice, 3 February 1891, p. 3, as L'Armée française à Venise.
A. de la Pérelle, 'A ‘L’Épatant’, L'exposition du Circle de la rue Boissy-d'Anglas', La Presse, 4 February 1891, n.p., as L'Armée française à Venise.
'L'Union Artistique', La Lanterne, Paris, 4 February 1891, p. 3, as L'Armée française à Venise.
H. Dac, 'Lettres et Arts, Trois Petites Salons', Le Monde, Paris 9 February 1891, n. p., as L'Armée française à Venise.
R. O'Monroy, 'Courrier de Paris,' L'Univers illustré, Paris, vol. 34, no. 1873, 14 February 1891, p. 82, as L'Armée française à Venise.
V. Fournel, 'Les oeuvres et les hommes', Le correspondant, vol. 162, Paris, 25 February 1891, p. 761, as L'Armée française à Venise.
F. Mugnoz, 'Beaux-Arts, Exposition Annuelle du Cercle L'Union artistique', La Mode de Style, vol. 16, no. 11, 11 March 1891, p. 88, as L'Armée française à Venise.
'Fine Art, The Continental Gallery', The Bazar, The Exchange, and Mart, 6 April 1892, as Tambour Major Feeding Pigeons at St. Mark's.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York, 1892, illustrated, as The French Army in Venice, 1797.
'Les artists français à Chicago', Journal des Artistes, vol. 12, no. 4, 22 January 1893, p. 26, as Tambour-Major.
Leslie's Monthly Magazine, New York, May 1894, p. 601, illustrated, as Bonaparte's soldiers and the Pigeons of St. Mark's.



Exhibited

Paris, Cercle L'Union artistique, 1891, no. 106, as L'Armée française à Venise.
London, The Continental Gallery, Annual Exhibition of Paintings from the Paris Salons, 1892, as Tambour Major Feeding Pigeons at St. Mark's.
Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, no. 381 (no. 124 in the French Section).



Engraved

Charles Baude, The French Army in Venice, 1797 - In the Piazza of St. Mark, 1892.
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