ALEXANDRE ANTIGNA (1817-1878) RARE FRENCH REALIST OIL TWO GIRLS PRAYING - SUPERB

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ALEXANDRE ANTIGNA (1817-1878) RARE FRENCH REALIST OIL TWO GIRLS PRAYING - SUPERB:
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ALEXANDRE ANTIGNA (1817-1878) RARE FRENCH REALIST OIL TWO GIRLS PRAYING - SUPERBALEXANDRE ANTIGNA (1817-1878) RARE FRENCH REALIST OIL TWO GIRLS PRAYING - SUPERB
ALEXANDRE ANTIGNA
( 1817 - 1878 )
A beautiful oil by Alexandre Antigna depicting two young girls praying - this superb work is superbly observed and is a true french realist painting from one of the foremost painters of this period. his work can be found in many musems and is rare at sale.Title: “Two Girls Praying\"
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: Image measures c 10 x 7 inches unframed / 18 x 15 framed
Condition: Unlined and unrestored - a few small marks
Alexandre Antigna travelled to Paris at the suggestion of André Salamon, then professor of composition at a college in Orléans. He enrolled in Norblin\'s workshop before going on to work for seven years under the direction of Paul Delaroche. He exhibited at Paris salons on a regular basis from 1841 and was awarded the Légion d\'Honneur in 1861. His work was principally on religious themes but, from 1841 to 1846, he took an increasing interest in genre painting. His style brings together observation of nature with studio poses and mannerisms observed from painters such as Daumier.
Antigna is significant as a first generation Realist whose works, like Courbet\'s, reflected contemporary social problems, exposing the oppressed conditions of workers in paintings such as Pauvre Famille. His sensuous painting After the Bath was so scandalous that it was removed from public view in 1854 and kept in the Orléans museum storeroom.
Group Exhibitions
2003, Bretagne, Terre des Peintres, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Vannes
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Angers: His Majesty the Emperor to the Slate Quarry, Workers of Angiers during the Floods of 1856Avignon: StormBagnères-de-Bigorre: Village CockerelBéziers: Head of Frightened WomanBordeaux: Picture-Seller; Reflected TreesChartres: All EarsDinan (Mus. du Château): Summer Evening in Brittany (1863, oil on canvas)Dunkirk: High TideLa Rochelle: Bookseller\'s DaughterLille: A Mother\'s Parting KissMontargis (Mus. Girodet): Head of Young WomanNantes: Young Girl Reading a LamentNantes (MBA): Breton InteriorOrléans: Study from a Scene from the Flooding of the Loire; Two Voices; Young Breton Sleeping; After the Bath; The Fire; Self-portrait; ChildrenParis: LightningSt-Brieuc (MAH): The Sleeping Spinner (1857, oil on canvas)Toulouse: Forced Halt
sale Records
Paris, 1878: Mustard King, FRF 1,420Paris, 2 March 1950: Asylum Courtyard, FRF 5,000Bern, 20 Oct 1977: Eating Soup (oil on canvas, 18 × 15 ins/46 × 38 cm) CHF 3,200Bern, 6 May 1981: Young Woman at Well (oil on canvas, 16½ × 11¾ ins/42 × 30 cm) CHF 4,000Antwerp, 27 May 1986: Young Lovers (oil on canvas, 63 × 45¼ ins/160 × 115 cm) BEF 320,000Paris, 30 March 1989: Little Girl with Basket (oil on canvas, 33 × 23½ ins/84 × 60 cm) FRF 23,000New York, 28 May 1992: At Rest (oil on canvas, 21 × 29½ ins/53.3 × 74.9 cm) USD 5,280New York, 17 Feb 1993: Atelier Scene (oil on panel, 15¾ × 13 ins/40.3 × 32.1 cm) USD 9,775Bibliography
Ojalvo, David: Alexandre Antigna, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux Arts d\'Orléans, Orleans, 1978.
Weisberg, Gabriel P.: The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1980.
Delouche, D.: ‘Realisme pictural et société rurale breton au 19 siècle’ in Mémoires de la Société d\'Histoire et d\'Archeologie de Bretagne, vol. 59, periodical, 1982.
Haddad, Michele: ‘Courbet et Antigna à propos d\'un incendie’ in Le livre et l\'art, études offertes en hommage à Pierre Lelièvre, Therese Kleindienst, École nationale supérieure des sciences de l\'information et des bibliothèques, Paris, 2000.
Delouche, Denise/Michaud, Jean-Marc, et al.: Bretagne, terre des peintres, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Vannes, 2003.
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