René Gouzien (actif en France, XVIIIe et XIXe siècle) Portrait...
René Gouzien (actif en France, XVIIIe et XIXe siècle)
Portrait de Charles-François Nivard à la palette
René Gouzien (active in France, 18th and 19th Century)
Portrait of Charles-François Nivard holding a palette
oil on canvas
39.8 x 31.9cm (15 11/16 x 12 9/16in).
accompanied by a green Moroccan embossed with 'A. Nivard' in gold, together with a small notebook
Provenance:
Collection Langlois, Paris (1914)
Anon. sale, Rouillac, Vendôme, 18 February 2018, lot 163
Literature:
J. Florange, Nivard, peintre Lorrain in La Revue Lorraine Illustrée (1914), p. 68, ill.
Charles-François Nivard (1739-1821) was a French painter who lived between Nancy and Paris, where he had moved for business reasons, after his marriage, in 1763. Once elected to the Royal Academy of Painting, he first exhibited his works at the Salon, in 1783. The present portrait dates to 1820, according to a plaque on the frame.
On the reverse of the painting, an handwritten poem is dedicated to him and his works:
'Elève heureux de la nature,
Aussi simple qu'elle, O Nivard,
Dis nous comment dans ta peinture,
Tu sais si bien déguiser l'art,
Qu'on n'apperçoit point sa parure.
Dis nous comment, dans tes tableaux,
Tu mels ce charme, cette vie,
Ce ton si vrai, cette harmonie,
Qui, sans nul effort de Genie,
Semblent couler de tes pinceux.
Vers de 1785'
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René Gouzien (actif en France, XVIIIe et XIXe siècle)
Portrait de Charles-François Nivard à la palette
René Gouzien (active in France, 18th and 19th Century)
Portrait of Charles-François Nivard holding a palette
oil on canvas
39.8 x 31.9cm (15 11/16 x 12 9/16in).
accompanied by a green Moroccan embossed with 'A. Nivard' in gold, together with a small notebook
Provenance:
Collection Langlois, Paris (1914)
Anon. sale, Rouillac, Vendôme, 18 February 2018, lot 163
Literature:
J. Florange, Nivard, peintre Lorrain in La Revue Lorraine Illustrée (1914), p. 68, ill.
Charles-François Nivard (1739-1821) was a French painter who lived between Nancy and Paris, where he had moved for business reasons, after his marriage, in 1763. Once elected to the Royal Academy of Painting, he first exhibited his works at the Salon, in 1783. The present portrait dates to 1820, according to a plaque on the frame.
On the reverse of the painting, an handwritten poem is dedicated to him and his works:
'Elève heureux de la nature,
Aussi simple qu'elle, O Nivard,
Dis nous comment dans ta peinture,
Tu sais si bien déguiser l'art,
Qu'on n'apperçoit point sa parure.
Dis nous comment, dans tes tableaux,
Tu mels ce charme, cette vie,
Ce ton si vrai, cette harmonie,
Qui, sans nul effort de Genie,
Semblent couler de tes pinceux.
Vers de 1785'
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