BARTHÉLEMY MENN (1815 Geneva 1893) Pauvre mère,... Lot 3239

BARTHÉLEMY MENN (1815 Geneva 1893) Pauvre mère, ton fils est mort. 1837. Oil on canvas. Signed, inscribed and dated lower left: Barthelemy Menn Rome 1837. 166.4 × 120 cm. Provenance: Swiss collection. Exhibitions: - Probably Geneva, Exposition de la Société des Arts, Musée Rath, 1837, no. 118. - Probably Paris, Salon 1838, no. 1280. Literature: - Probably Ausst.-Kat. Salon du Musée Rath, Geneva 1837, p. 16. - Probably Daniel Baud-Bovy (ed.): Barthélémy Menn. Choix de lettres, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft und Kunsthaus Zürich, 1924, pp. 3-27. - Prob Daniel Baud-Bovy (ed.): Lettres de Rome de Barthélemy Menn à Jules Hébert, in: Annuaire des beaux-arts en Suisse, vol. III, 1921-1924, pp. 326-359, esp. pp. 348 and 352-353. - Prob Ausst.-Kat. Les éleves d'Ingres, Musée d'Ingres, Montauban 1999, p. 145. - Probably Marie Therese Bätschmann, Débuts d'une carrière, in: Ausst.-Kat. Barthélemy Menn (1815-1993) Savoir pour créer, MAH Geneva / Bern 2018, p. 43. A student of Jean-Léonard Lugardon (1801-1864) and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Barthélémy Menn sent three paintings to Geneva in 1837 for the Musée Rath exhibition: no. 117 "Salomon choisissant la Sagesse", no. 118 "Pauvre mère ton fils est mort" (probably the painting offered here) and no. 119 "Pifferari, Paysans napolitains en tournée à Rome". The painting idea was triggered by the death of the child of the Geneva painter Jules Hébert (1812-1897) and the poem "L'ange et l'enfant" by the French writer Jean Reboul (1796-1864) from 1828. These items, marked with * (asterisk), are fully subject to VAT, i.e. for these items VAT will be charged on the hammer price plus buyer's premium. Buyers who present a legally stamped export declaration will be refunded the VAT.