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FRANÇOIS-LOUIS FRANÇAIS (PLOMBIÈRES-LES-BAINS, VOSGES 1814-1897 PARIS)
Lot 65 PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

FRANÇOIS-LOUIS FRANÇAIS (PLOMBIÈRES-LES-BAINS, VOSGES 1814-1897 PARIS)

View from the artist’s garden in Cannes

Closed26 January 2023

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FRANÇOIS-LOUIS FRANÇAIS (PLOMBIÈRES-LES-BAINS, VOSGES 1814-1897 PARIS)
View from the artist’s garden in Cannes
signed and dated ‘Francois 72’ (lower right)
watercolor and bodycolor on blue paper
8 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (21.2 x 29.5 cm)

Specialist note

The landscapist Français entered the studio of Jean-François Gigoux (1806-1894) in 1834, and received advice from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) before exhibiting at the Salon starting in 1837. He painted the surroundings of Paris and travelled mainly in Italy. From the early 1870s, he divided his time between Plombières, his native town in the Vosges, and the region of Nice in Southern France (G. Schurr and P. Cabanne, Dictionnaire des petits maîtres de la peinture, 1820-1920, Paris, 1996, I, p. 444). The present work was made in 1872 in Cannes, south of Nice.