69042: Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré (Frenc

Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré (French, 1877-1920) Faneuse ratissant (Raking tedder) Oil on canvas 35-1x4 x 46-1x4 inches (89.5 x 117.5 cm) Signed lower right: Th Cotard-Dupré PROVENANCE: Joseph Reau, Butte, Montana, by 1938; Thence by descent to the present owner, Missoula, Montana. EXHIBITED: Sociéte des Artistes Français, Paris, "Salon de 1913,", 1913, no. 466; Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs, Paris, "Salon de 1913," 1913; Butte Art Center, Butte, Montana, "The Joseph Reau Collection," October 1938, no. 15 (as The Rakers). French Realist painter Thérèse Marthe Françoise Cotard-Dupré was born into an artistic family in Paris on March 19, 1877, and made her home in the French capital until her untimely death in 1920 at the age of 43. She was the pupil of her father Julien Dupré and her maternal uncle Georges Laugée, two artist friends and brothers-in-law who shared a studio. Her mother Marie Laugée Cotard and her husband Edmond Louis Jules Cotard were also painters. She exhibited from 1899 in the Paris Salons (Société des Artistes Français), and had received several awards including a third-class medal in 1907. Like her father and grandfather, Thérèse Cotard-Dupré gained artistic success by specializing in genre scenes set in verdant locales and featuring rural peasant life. Also like her father, Cotard-Dupré frequently adopted the use of large-scale canvases and monumental figures for her peasant subjects, which was a direct refutation of the academic prescription for rustic scenes to be painted on a diminutive scale with small figures. Cotard-Dupré's canvases usually focus on women collaborating on tasks such as hanging laundry together, harvesting, or herding farm animals. Although she was a prolific artist who achieved an important production, her works are quite rare today, since many were destroyed during World War I. Her children did not have any descendants, and the paintings they had owned by their mother were unfortunately dispersed. She died in the Orly clinic of Doctor Piouffle who specialized in the care of alcoholics.

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Condition Report: Unlined canvas. A circular patch, approximately 1 1x2-inches in diameter, applied to the reverse of the canvas at lower left. Pinholes in corners and in center of upper and lower edges. Slight undulation to canvas, commensurate with unlined state. Minor frame abrasion at edges. Vertical stretcher bar mark in upper half of the center of the work, faintly visible under raking light. Yellowing to the varnish layer. Finely patterned craquelure throughout, with a small area of more pronounced craquelure and pigment separation in upper right corner. Mild surface dirt and dust. Not examined out of frame due to size.
Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. Brushy retouching to the edges. An oval area of retouching, approximately 1 inch high by 3 inches wide, in lower right corner, corresponding with aforementioned patch on the reverse. Scattered, finely applied dots and dashes of retouching to the background, none apparently affecting the central figure.
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