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HENRI-PIERRE PICOU (NANTES 1824-1895)

Lot 77
22.03.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
Classic
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€ 3 528
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 922099
Lot 77 | HENRI-PIERRE PICOU (NANTES 1824-1895)
Estimate value
€ 3 000 – 5 000
HENRI-PIERRE PICOU (NANTES 1824-1895)

Portrait de Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

signé ‘H. Picou.’ (en bas à droite) et annoté par le modèle ‘mon portrait à l’age/ de 19 ans/ JL. Gérôme’ (en bas à droite)

graphite

diam. 14,2 cm (5.5 /8 in.)





Literature

C. Sciama et F. Viguier-Dutheil, La Lyre d'ivoire. Henry-Pierre Picou et les Néo-Grecs, cat. exp., Nantes, musée des Beaux-Arts, Montauban, Musée Ingres Bourdelle, 2013-2014, p. 260, ill. 71.



Post lot text

HENRI-PIERRE PICOU, PORTRAIT OF JEAN-LEON GÉRÔME, GRAPHITE, SIGNED AND WITH INSCRIPTIONS

Thanks to an annotation in the hand of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), this drawing can be dated to 1844, when the model returned from his trip to Italy. Picou met Gérôme in Paul Delaroche’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1836. When Gérôme left for Italy with Delaroche in 1843, Picou joined the studio of his successor Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) (C. Sciama and F. Viguier-Dutheil, op. cit., pp. 34-36). This profile portrait already shows the artist’s taste for classical art. He shared this antique aesthetic with his friends Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888), Jean-Louis Hamon (1821-1874) and Gérôme, which earned them the nickname of Neo-Greeks (ibid., pp. 73-83).
Artist:Henri-Pierre Picou (1824 - 1895)
Applied technique:Graphite
Medium:Stone
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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