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NOVEMBER 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 146:
Attributed to Emile Munier, (French 1840-1895).
Oil on canvas genre painting depicting two young girls on the steps.
Remains of the early Soviet newspaper "Pravda" on the stretcher.
Circa 1880.
Footnote: Emile Munier was a genre, landscape and portrait painter, born in Paris in 1840. Munier studied at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and began his artistic career apprenticing for the Parisian stain glassmaker Emile Galle. Eventually, Munier worked with A. Lucas and William Adolphe Bouguereau helping to preserve the high standards of the Academy.
Munier exhibited many of his works at the Paris Salon between 1865-1895, including genre pictures and portraits. In 1882 he received an honorable mention. In 1890, when Meissonier and his followers broke away from the Academy forming the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Munier remained a supporter of the Ecole, and continued to exhibit at the Paris Salon which had become known as "le Salon Bouguereau."
21 x 18 1/2 in., (60 x 47 cm.)
Condition: The painting is in good condition overall. A few very small paint losses to the lower part of the work.
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