European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Property from the Collection of Bryan Steele
VIRGINIE DEMONT-BRETON | AU PAYS BLEU
Auction Closed
October 22, 05:21 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Bryan Steele
VIRGINIE DEMONT-BRETON
French
1859 - 1935
AU PAYS BLEU
signed Virginie Demont-Breton (lower left)
oil on canvas
23¼ by 31½ in.
59.1 by 80 cm
We would like to thank Annette Bourrut Lacouture for confirming the authenticity of this lot.
Sale: Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco and Los Angeles, May 18, 1994, lot 2853, illustrated (as Frolicking on the Beach)
Acquired at the above sale
Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, 1892, no. 535
Chicago, International Exposition, 1893, no. 164
Following in the footsteps of her father, the celebrated painter Jules Breton, Virginie Demont-Breton found inspiration for her own compositions in the lives of fishermen and their families in Wissant, near Calais. The artist began Au pays bleu in 1891 and completed the work shortly before the 1892 Salon des Artistes Français. Demont-Breton's daughter Adrienne, aged four, served as the model for the little girl. Her Irish Setter Musette was the model for the dog.