MARIE-ALEXANDRINE-OLYMPE ARSON (NEUILLY-SUR-INDRE ? 1814- APRÈS 1870) - photo 1

MARIE-ALEXANDRINE-OLYMPE ARSON (NEUILLY-SUR-INDRE ? 1814- APRÈS 1870)

Lot 72
18.05.2022 14:30UTC +01:00
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€ 60 480
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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Lot 72 | MARIE-ALEXANDRINE-OLYMPE ARSON (NEUILLY-SUR-INDRE ? 1814- APRÈS 1870)
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€ 20 000 – 30 000
MARIE-ALEXANDRINE-OLYMPE ARSON (NEUILLY-SUR-INDRE ? 1814- APRÈS 1870)Panier de pivoines, lilas, auriculae, narcisses, iris et muguet sur un banc de pierreSigné 'OLYMPE ARSON / ELEVE DE M. REDOUTÉ' (en bas à gauche)graphite, aquarelle rehaussé de gomme arabique sur vélin95,5 x 77 cm (37 3⁄4 x 30 1⁄4 in.) Provenance Cornelie Marie Pauline van Lidth de Jeude (1913-1983), née Schorer (selon une étiquette au verso du cadre d'origine). Literature 'Exposition de 1839' Journal des Artistes, revue pittoresque, XIIIe année, I., 10 mars 1839, n°10, p.150. Exhibited Paris, Musée du Louvre, Salon, 1839, n° 48 'Panier de fleurs sur un banc de pierre' (numéro d’enregistrement au Salon inscrit à la pierre noire au verso '268'). Post lot text MARIE-ALEXANDRINE-OLYMPE ARSON, A BASKET OF FLOWERS ON A STONE ENTABLATURE, GRAPHITE, WATERCOLOR HEIGHTENED WITH ARABIC GUM, SIGNED This unpublished calfskin, of an exceptionally large size for an animal skin and in an excellent state of conservation, was exhibited at the 1839 Salon and described in complimentary terms: 'The Basket of Flowers on a Stone Bench (48), by Miss Arson, is a beautiful, well-composed watercolour, well-modeled and harmonious in aspect. This young artist is one of the most distinguished in this gracious, and equally difficult genre, whatever one may say' (Exposition de 1839, op cit.).Olympe Arson, the youngest artist to ever have received a medal at the prestigious Salon des Beaux-Arts of 1834 at only 21 years old, shattered the expectations of what it meant to be a woman artist during the Restoration period in 19th-century France. Training under the master Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Arson honed a skillful precocity for flower painting and became his best student and closest collaborator. (S. Sofio, ‘Petite histoire de la féminisation de la peinture des fleurs’, Les Pouvoirs des Fleur : Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), exh. cat., Paris, musée de la vie romantique, 2017, p.125). She notably pariticpated in the illustration of a text published in Paris and London in 1837, The Birth of Flowers or the 365 Days of the Year in Florals (lithographs by Dumas and Roulliet) by executing 16 drawings.One of the emblematic drawings, Cactus, as well as Vase of Flowers on a Table, comparable to the present watercolour, belonged to the Castille collection, a couple of collectors whose works were sold at auction in Versailles on March 17, 1991, lots 134-141 (op. cit., 2017, n°60).The Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge holds a small Bouquet of Roses on calfskin (inv. PD. 162-1973), however Arson's work remains relatively unknown, as she entered the convent of of Neuilly-sur-Indre after the death of her master in 1840 at the young age of twenty-six. Here, according to Hardouin-Fugier, she taught drawing and ended her days (The pupils of Redouté, Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis, 1981, pp. 31-32). Considering her short career, this watercolour is all the more precious as it appears to be one of the rare works by Pierre-Joseph's best pupil on the market today.
Applied technique:Painted, Watercolor
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:All other types of objects, Drawings
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