Description
Fine quality large oil on canvas by listed French artist Henri Cauchois (1850-1911), superbly painted. A blue and white Delft vase holds a tremendous spray of colorful fresh flowers highlighted against a dark and moody background. Cauchois compositional style is characterised by vigorously applied and densely colored brushstrokes. This work brings a garden of delights into the room in which it is hung and is one of the best examples of his work. Signed lower right and housed in a carved giltwood frame.
Dimensions: 26 L x 3 W x 30.5 H; Sight: 21.5 L x 26 H
Condition: Very good, ready to hang
Cauchois was born in Rouen in 1850, and began his artistic training as a student of Alexandre Cabanel, Ernest Quost and Duboc. From 1874, he regularly exhibited his flower and genre paintings in the salon and gained great success. He was a member of the Societe diu Salon des Artistes Francais from 1890 and was awarded bronze medals in 1898 and 1900 as well as a silver medal in 1904. Towards the end of his life, Cauchois directed his efforts to decorative compositions including panels decorated with seasonal flowers for a school in the seventh arrondissement in Paris. A promising show of youthful talent encouraged the young Eugène Henri Cauchois to leave his native Rouen to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was among the most highly regarded artists of fashionable mid-19th-century Paris. Cauchois, as a pupil, assisted his master in working on great decorative panels for Paris’s most fashionable noble houses, as well as the palace of Emperor Napoleon III, for whom he was court painter.
Auction records exceed $35,000 for Cauchois.
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