19th Century European Art
19th Century European Art
Property from a Private Collection
Jeune femme traversant le boulevard
Lot Closed
May 26, 07:12 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Jean Béraud
French
1849 - 1935
Jeune femme traversant le boulevard
signed Jean Béraud. (lower right)
oil on panel
panel: 20½ by 14 in.; 52.1 by 35.6 cm
framed: 26 ⅝ by 20 ¼ in.; 67. 6 by 51.4 cm.
Various colonnes Morris appear in a series of Béraud’s works, and the artist recorded many of the playbills advertising the most popular entertainments of the Belle Époque. Here, in front of the café, a man in a tan overcoat stops to scan the colorful posters, their overlapping layers suggesting the ever-changing entertainment opportunities Belle Époque Paris offered—from public balls to theatrical productions and dance performances.
This kind of quotidian cosmopolitan subject appealed to a wide variety of collectors. Jeune femme traversant le boulevard is recorded as having belonged to Ernest-Alexandre-Honoré Coquelin (1848-1909), called Coquelin cadet. He was the younger brother of Benoit-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909), the great French actor of unusual range and versatility who created Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897. Like his brother, Coquelin cadet was a member of the Comédie-Française and specialized in supporting comedy roles.