Victoria DUBOURG (1840-1926) Basket of Roses Oil... Lot 162

Victoria DUBOURG (1840-1926) Basket of Roses Oil on canvas (small restorations), signed lower right with the monogram 36,5 x 47,5 cm Provenance: Tempelaere Collection, remained in the family since. A certificate of authenticity from Brame et Lorenceau will be given to the buyer. Victoria Dubourg was born in Paris in 1840 and met Fantin-Latour at the Louvre in 1869, when the two young artists were copying the paintings of the Old Masters. Édouard Manet, whom she met in 1860, was a witness at their wedding in 1876, and Edgard Degas painted her portrait around 1868. Victoria Dubourg exhibited at the Salon from 1869 and at the Royal Academy in London, of which she was a member, from 1882 to 1896. She also participated in Fantin-Latour's flower paintings while continuing to paint her own works. From 1904, date of Henri Fantin-Latour's death, she devoted herself exclusively to the organization of a large retrospective and to the elaboration of the general catalogue of her husband's work. Still life is her favourite subject: she paints with delicacy and virtuosity bouquets and floral compositions, to which the play of light and the superb vibrant backgrounds give life. "Victoria Dubourg's flowers, just picked, are depicted as they are, unadorned, unarranged, natural: the flowers seem to breathe on the canvas. (Art Digest, October 1935)