Belle Époque Splendor: The Discerning Eye of a Collector
Belle Époque Splendor: The Discerning Eye of a Collector
Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier
The Gleaner
Auction Closed
May 25, 06:44 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Gabriel-Joseph-Marie-Augustin Ferrier
French
1847 - 1914
The Gleaner
dedicated, signed, inscribed and dated A mon ami Pasteur/ G. Ferrier Rome 1874 (lower right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 45 by 31 in.; 114.3 by 78.7 cm
framed: 49½ by 36 in.; 125.7 by 91.4 cm
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 1999, lot 73
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Unlike the gleaners of Jean-François Millet and other Barbizon painters, Gabriel Ferrier’s figure is a formidable young woman wearing a corset looking out to meet but averting the viewer’s gaze. Carrying stalks of wheat and a scythe, she stands within a strong tradition of genre pictures depicting the back-breaking labor that helped nourish all of France, but strikingly apart from the often anonymous harvesters seen at work in the fields.
Ferrier made his Salon debut in 1869, received the Prix de Rome in 1872, and was awarded several medals at subsequent exhibitions including the Médaille d'Honneur in 1903. He succeeded Jean-Léon Gérôme as a respected instructor at the École des Beaux-Arts and in 1911 was made a Commandeur in the Légion d'Honneur.
Ferrier made his Salon debut in 1869, received the Prix de Rome in 1872, and was awarded several medals at subsequent exhibitions including the Médaille d'Honneur in 1903. He succeeded Jean-Léon Gérôme as a respected instructor at the École des Beaux-Arts and in 1911 was made a Commandeur in the Légion d'Honneur.