Paysage de banlieue, Aubervilliers
Oil on cardboard, signed lower right
65.7 x 86.5 cm - 25 7/8 x 34 in.
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PROVENANCE
Collection privée, Sud de la France
JEAN-FRANÇOIS RAFFAËLLI
Jean-François Raffaëlli is a French painter and sculptor of Italian origin born in 1850 in Paris. He trained at the School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of the famous artist Léon Gérôme. He exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1870. He is known to be the painter of the Parisian suburbs and that of the representation of the emergence of a middle class. He is a very well-known artist during his lifetime as he was awarded and named ‘Officier de la Légion d'Honneur'. He was also awarded a gold medal at the 1889 World's Fair.
Although he is not affiliated with them, his technique is very much influenced by that of the Impressionists. He paints in a very supple way and the brushstrokes are visible. Raffaëlli also rubbed shoulders with these artists. Degas, who became his friend, pushed him to participate in the Impressionists' exhibition of 1880 and 1881. He borrowed his pastel technique from him, and from Morisot his airy and clear touch.
He died at the age of 74. The Symbolist poet and art critic Gustave Kahn declared about the artist: «Raffaëlli is dead (...) He knew everything about his art. The certainty of his execution ensures that his paintings will last a long time... The paintings of him that will enter the Louvre will smile with an unalterable youthfulness. Let us hope that they will be there enough to show all the diversity as well as the strength of his genius...”.1
In this oil on cardboard, Raffaëlli represents a landscape in the suburbs of Aubervilliers. The fields are depicted
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