Exhibitions in Parisian galleries (3)

26/11/24 – Paris – Art market – We will end our tour of the Parisian galleries on the rue Sainte-Anne and rue de Louvois side.

A great artist obviously knows how to present his models in their best light, the best not always being the most flattering. Thus Böcklin caricatured Franz von Lenbach, a worldly painter if ever there was one, whom he met in Munich and with whom he taught at the Weimar School of Fine Arts (ill. 1). The two friends also portrayed each other in more amiable paintings. The drawing is proposed by the London gallery Emanuel Von Baeyer hosted in Paris by the Michel Descours gallery which is participating in the FAB show (see the article) at the Grand Palais.

1. Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901)

Portrait charge of the artist Franz von Lenbacharound 1874

Sanguine – 40,9 x 30,8 cm

Gallery Emanuel by Baeyer London

at the Galerie Michel Descours

Photo : bbsg

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2. Attributed to Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)

Portrait-charge of Jacques Louis David (recto)

(Study of eyes on verso)

Sanguine – 14,3 x 11 cm

Gallery Benjamin Peronnet

Paris: Benjamin Peronnet Gallery

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Jacques Louis David preferred to take the lead by himself sketching his strange face swollen by a tumor on his cheek (ill. 2), which he usually concealed with a shadow in his painted self-portraits. If this drawing was lithographed by Charpentier with this inscription “ fac simile of a charge by L. David made by himself in 1786 “, its attribution is despite all debate: according to some, it is improbable that David would have caricatured himself in this way, while others emphasize that he already did it in verso from a sheet kept at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

3. Louis Appian (1861-1896)

Self-portrait

Charcoal – 42 × 31 cm

Ambroise Duchemin Gallery

Photo: Ambroise Duchemin Gallery

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Louis Appian showed himself…

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