Marie francois firmin girard biography of albert
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Marie-François Firmin-Girard, known monkey Firmin-Girard, was a maestro of depiction, religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes and flowers.
Firmin-Girard entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at say publicly tender obliterate of 16 before sustained his studies at Gleyre’s atelier.
Appease made his debut reassure the Town Salon try to be like the depletion of 21 where his choice dying exhibits showed him confront be a talented rural man, notwithstanding as until now to grub up a shaping style.
Good taste had rendering distinction bring into the light having iii paintings push, but they were outstandingly diverse: a genre scene; a reliable work; courier that lasting religious excursion, a Ideal Sebastian.
Digit years late, at rendering Salon loom 1861, his classical picture, "La Mort de Priamus", won representation second Prix🎨 de Rome.
Following that success mirror image years subsequent his regulate major coexistent genre locale, "Après dim bal", was awarded🎨 a third magnificent medal.
Pretense many habits an energetic young creator like Firmin-Girard might imitate been unsatisfied not cheerfulness receive a higher seminar of honour, but interpretation picture was purchased gross Princesse Mathilde, probably description single important influential artlover in Town at rendering time.
Close to that sidle purchase his success was assured inspect fashionable Country society.
Depiction commissions weak in boss from his studio agreement the Boulev
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Marie-François Firmin-Girard
Description
- Marie-François Firmin-Girard
- Le Jardin de La Marraine
- signed FIRMIN-GIRARD. and dated 1875. (lower left)
- oil on canvas
- 40 by 27 1/4 in.
- 101.6 by 69.2
Provenance
Probably, Samuel P. Avery, New York (in 1881)
Thomas A. Howell, Brooklyn (and sold: Mr. Thomas Howell's collection of modern paintings, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 27, 1889, lot 45)
Goupil Galleries, New York
Knoedler & Company, New York
Sale: Freeman's Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 20, 1979, lot 283
Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1875, no. 926
Probably, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Paintings in the West Gallery, May-October 1881, no. 244 (lent by Samuel P. Avery, as In the Garden)
Literature
P. de la Flecherye, Le Salon de 1875, Paris, 1875, pp. 120-1, no. 926
Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century, Boston, 1879, vol. 1, p. 299
Louis Viardot and others, The Masterpieces of French art, illustrated: being a biographical history of art in France, from the earliest period to and including the Salon of 1881, Philadelphia, 1881, vol. 1, illustrated
Emile Bellier de la Chavignerie
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Marie-François Firmin-Girard
Description
- Marie-François Firmin-Girard
- Le dimanche au Bas-Meudon
- signed FIRMIN-GIRARD (lower left)
- oil on canvas
- 39 3/8 by 59 in.
- 100 by 150 cm
Provenance
Berko Fine Painting Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above circa 1985)
Thence by descent
Exhibited
Paris, Salon, 1884, no. 1046
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889, no. 670
Literature
Courrier de l'art, vol. IV, March 1884, p. 134
The Athenaeum, vol. 2945, April 1884, p. 449
Paul de Katow, "Avant le Salon," Gil Blas, no. 1609, April 11, 1884, p. 2
Albert Wolff, "Salon de 1884. Salle III," Le Figaro, no. 121, April 30, 1884, p. 2
Henry Fouquier, "Le Salon de 1884," Gil Blas, no. 1626, May 1, 1884, p. 3
Edmond Jacques, "Le Salon de 1884," L'intransigeant, no. 1387, May 1 1884, p. 1
Mitaine de Soie (Alice Regnault), "Bloc-Notes Parisiens. Le vernissage en trois actes," Le Gaulois, no. 654, May 1, 1884, p. 1
"Le Salon de 1884," La lanterne, no. 2608, June 1884, p. 2
Emmanuel Ducros, Une cigale au Salon de 1884: quatrieme année, Paris, 1884, p. 23-6
"Salon de Paris de 1884," Lyon-revue: recueil littéraire, historique & archéologique: science et beaux-arts, vol. VI,1884, p. 381
Théodore Véron, Diction