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Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras 1758-1846 Montmorency)
Lot 165 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras 1758-1846 Montmorency)

An Alpine landscape with figures bathing and fishermen in their boats nearby

Closed19 April 2018

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Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld (Carpentras 1758-1846 Montmorency)
An Alpine landscape with figures bathing and fishermen in their boats nearby
oil on canvas
15 7/8 x 20 ¾ in. (40.4 x 52.8 cm.)

[The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 85.

Specialist note

Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld was the first landscape painter to be admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in 1823. His works, which were avidly sought by important patrons, among them King Louis XVIII, epitomize Neoclassical landscape painting in the rigorous compositional order of his bucolic subjects. This painting probably derives from a study made directly from nature. The diminutive figures may be by one of the many artists, including Guillaume Lethière, Carle Vernet, François Gérard and Louis-Léopold Boilly, with whom Bidauld is known to have collaborated.