Charles-François Grenier de Lacroix, called Lacroix de Marseille
A pair of southern coastal landscapes: sunset with a ship, characters in oriental dress and fishermen; moonlit scene with fishermen
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Charles-François Grenier de Lacroix, called Lacroix de Marseille
Marseille c. 1700–1782 Berlin
A pair of southern coastal landscapes: sunset with a ship, characters in oriental dress and fishermen; moonlit scene with fishermen
one signed, located, and indistinctly dated lower right, on the rock: Gr DeLacroix.. / ft Roma 17 […]; inscribed on the reverse: Cittadne. Blanchetti.no 7
the other signed, located, and indistinctly dated lower left, on the rock: Gr De Lacroix. / Roma 17 […]; inscribed on the reverse: Cittadine. Blanchetti.no. 8.
a pair, both oil on canvas
one unframed: 48.2 x 63.1 cm.; 19 x 24⅞ in.
framed: 66.2 x 83.2 cm.; 26 x 32¾ in.
the other unframed: 48.4 x 63.3 cm.; 19 x 24⅞ in.
framed: 66.4 x 83 cm.; 26⅛ x 32⅝ in.
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Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 17 October 2012, lot 605;
Acquired subsequently by the present owner.
These charming, signed and dated views were painted when Lacroix de Marseille was in Rome. Little is known about the artist's early life or training, as he is not recorded until 1750, when he met the Marquis de Vandières in the Eternal City. It has traditionally been assumed that Lacroix was a pupil of Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714–1789): they were evidently working alongside one another in Rome by 1751, when Lacroix executed four copies after Vernet's Times of Day for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, 1st Baronet (c. 1714–1774), which hang today at Uppark House, West Sussex.1 When Vernet returned to France in 1753, Lacroix’s work began to develop a more distinctive tone of its own, though his presumed master's work undoubtedly remained a guiding influence throughout his subsequent career.
Another painting by Lacroix from this period – signed, dated 1750 and inscribed fecit Rom – is today in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.2
1 A set of four, all oil on canvas, each approximately 98 x 137 cm.
2 Object no. 1956.64; oil on canvas, 94.6 x 164.5 cm.
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