EXCLUSIVE FINE ART AUCTION JUNE 8TH, 2024
Lot 180239:
Description
Antoine Berjon (French, 1754-1843), Oil on board, floral still life. Artwork set in a gilt frame. The artist is known as one of the most important floral painters of 19th C. France.
Andy Thomas of Carthage, Missouri is dedicated to the Trans-Mississippi Civil War series in which he is depicting battles West of the Mississippi River. These have been, for the most part, undoctumented by todays artists.
Antoine Berjon was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France. He worked in a variety of media including oil, pastel, watercolour, and ink.
Berjon was born in St Pierre de Vaise, a commune of Lyon, to the son of a butcher, and he first studied drawing with the local sculptor Antoine-Michel Perrache. His early history is not clear; according to his uncorroborated biographer J. Gaubin, he may have studied medicine or a religious vocation, learning flower painting during his novitiate. He went to work as a designer of textiles in Lyon’s important silk industry until its collapse with the French Revolution.
Berjon’s paintings from the 1780s are untraced. In 1791, the Paris Salon accepted four of his works, including Still Life of Peaches and Grapes. He visited Paris often in the early 1790s and moved there in 1794, becoming a friend of Jean-Baptiste-Jean Augustin, a painter of miniatures, and of Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, a portraitist. Living in Paris for 17 years, he exhibited at the Salon at least five times.
Size: 9.25 X 11.5″. 20.5 X 22.5″ Frame.
Condition: Some craquelure to paint. Not examined out of frame. Frame exhibits some light loss.
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