Lot 135
  • 135

EMILE FRIANT | The tramp

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
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Description

  • Emile Friant
  • The tramp
  • Signed and dated lower right E. Friant 90 ; Bears an old Nancy exhibition label on the reverse with the number 403
  • Oil on panel
  • 30 x 35,7 cm ; 11 7/8 by 14 in.

Provenance

C. Coquelin Collection ;
His sale, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 9 June 1906, n°46 ;
Sale of M. Corbin's collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 & 20 October 1936, lot 79 ;
Purchased from the above by the current owner's grandfather

Exhibited

Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1890, n°377 titled Vagabond ;
Salon de Nancy
, Nancy, 1893, n°139 ;
Rétrospective des meilleures oeuvres d'artistes lorrains récompensés aux Salons parisiens
, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 1909 ;
Salon de la Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1913, n°479, titled Le Vagabond ;
Salon des Artistes français, Paris, 1920, n°692, titled Le Vagabond ;
Émile Friant, regard sur l'homme et l'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 8 July - 4 October 1988, p.41 n°12 illustrated in color ;
De Charles de Meixmoron à Etienne Cournault. Rétrospective 1892 - 1950, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 18 January - 18 April 1993, n°62 ;
Peinture et Art Nouveau, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 24 April - 26 July 1999, illustrated p. 49 illustration 40, n°18 in the catalogue ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June - 3 September 2006, illustrated n° 92, p.63 ;
Ecole de Nancy, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, according to a Chenue  label on the reverse ;
Emile Friant, le dernier naturaliste ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 4 November 2016 - 27 February 2017, n°54, illustrated p. 122

Literature

Philippe Claudel, Au revoir Monsieur Friant, Lavaur, 2001, illustrated p. 54 ;
Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p.88.

Condition

- some little wear along the edges, due to the frame; - thin and little traces in the cave on the left, where the support shows through: either little wear or original ; - no repainted areas visible under UV light; - perfect condition
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Catalogue Note

Under the third Republic, France strengthened the anti-vagrancy legislation. Here, Friant choses to depict a lonely and peaceful wanderer in a hostile and rocky landscape. This painting recalls Courbet's treatment of similar subject matters.