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Original Maitre de L'Affiche - Boutet de Monvel#2273931

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Original Maitre de L'Affiche - Boutet de Monvel#2273931
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A classic from the Maitres des Affiches - framed and ready to hang in any room in the house!</em></td>
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Pates Dentifrice du Dr. Pierre
ARTIST : Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel

J(b Orléans, 18 Oct 1851; d Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, 16 March 1913). French painter and illustrator. From 1869 he took a course at the De Rudder school of art and in the following year was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he worked in the atelier of Alexandre Cabanel. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and afterwards studied under Jules Lefebvre, Gustave Boulanger and Carolus-Duran. From Carolus-Duran he acquired a liking for portraiture (e.g. Rachel Boyer as Diana, 1886; Paris, Louvre) and for the works of Ribera, which he admired particularly for their dark and resinous tones. From 1873 he exhibited at the Salon and in 1885 he created a stir with his Apotheosis of a Scoundrel (or Apotheosis of Robert Macaire; Orléans, Mus. B.-A.), a work imbued with a violently anti-republican spirit. As well as painting, he illustrated children's literature, beginning with the successful La France en zig-zags (1881). Other collections followed: Vieilles chansons pour les petits enfants and Chansons de France pour les petits français (both Paris, 1883), two books of songs for which he provided illustrations, and Anatole France's Nos enfants: Scènes de la ville et des champs (Paris, 1887). In these works, Boutet de Monvel's delicate and refined draughtsmanship enhanced the authors' delight in the world of children. He managed to retain the individuality of his subjects, using a modern style ...
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<tr><td>Condition:A</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1897</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:12</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Original Maitre de L'Affiche - Boutet de Monvel</td></tr>

<tr><td>Materials:paper, linen</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Montreal, Quebec</td></tr>
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