Lot 54
  • 54

Georges Jeanniot

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Georges Jeanniot
  • Elèves caporaux sur l’esplanade des Invalides à Paris
  • signed Georges Jeanniot and dated  1883 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 38 1/2 by 51 in.
  • 98 by 130 cm

Exhibited

Salon, 1883 no.1268 ( illustrated in catalogue, p. 214, with incorrect dimensions (probably with the frame))

 

Literature

Louis Enault, Catalogue du Salon de 1883,  p. 37, 38, illustrated
Le Figaro Illustré, March 1903, illustrated
François Robichon, L’armée française vue par les peintres 1870-1914, Paris,1998, illustrated p. 76

Condition

Unlined. Surface is dirty with visible accretions. Craquelure visible in sky with small losses in the dog. Under UV: Inpainting at left and upper right sides and two spots in the sky which are also visible to the naked eye.
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