Auction on
13 January 2021 - 14:00 (CET) -
24, rue du Marché-Commun - 44300 Nantes
This painting, which has been lovingly kept in the family of Charles Jonnart, a governor in Algeria, for over a century, illustrates a little-known chapter in the animal painter’s career.
Paul Jouve (1878-1973), Fillette à cheval accompagnée d’un cavalier targui et d’un chien (Little Girl on Horseback Accompanied by a Targui Horseman and a Dog), c. 1908, signed oil on canvas, stamped “Paul Foinet et Fils” on the back, 82 x 100 cm (approx. 31.9 x 39.4 in). Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Paul Jouve (1878-1973), Fillette à cheval accompagnée d’un cavalier targui et d’un chien (Little Girl on Horseback Accompanied by a Targui Horseman and a Dog), c. 1908, signed oil on canvas, stamped “Paul Foinet et Fils” on the back, 82 x 100 cm (approx. 31.9 x 39.4 in). Estimate: €20,000/30,000
Combining power and elegance, Paul Jouve’s felines are among the most highly sought-after works by animal art collectors. They cannot but fail to recall Rudyard Kipling’s famous The Jungle Book , the now-legendary 1919 edition of which Jouve illustrated. There is no panther in this boldly…
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