19th-Century European Art
19th-Century European Art
Félicie Schneider
The Squall (Le Grain)
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Félicie Schneider (née Fournier)
French 1831 - 1888
The Squall (Le Grain)
signed lower left: Félicie Schneider
oil on canvas
canvas: 51 ½ by 38 ½ in.; 130.8 by 97.8 cm
framed: 61 by 48 ½ in.; 154.9 by 123.2 cm
Private collection, Westport, Connecticut;
Acquired from the above by the present onwer.
Explication des peintures, sculptures et autres ouvrages, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1884, p. 195, no. 2187.
F.G. Dumas, Catalogue Illustré du Salon, Paris 1884, p. XLVI, no. 2187.
Th. Véron, “Mme Félicie Schneider” in Dictionnaire Véron […] Le Salon de 1884, Paris 1884, p. 346.
P. Sanchez, X. Seydoux, “Salon de 1884” in Les Catalogues des Salon des Beaux Arts, vol. 14, Paris 1999, p. 195, no. 2187.
Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, 1884, no. 2187
Born in Saint-Cloud, Félicie Schneider (1831-1888) first learned to paint from her father, Amable Nicolas Fournier, and later attended the popular workshop for women run by Leon Cogniet, which he operated between 1840 and 1860 with his sister, Marie Amélie and one of his students, Catherine Caroline Thévenin (1813–1892), who later became his wife. Schneider began exhibiting at the Salon in 1849.