Pierre-Victor GALLAND (Geneva 1822 - Paris 1892)... Lot 35

Pierre-Victor GALLAND (Geneva 1822 - Paris 1892) Garland of plums; Garland of cherries; Garland of apples; Garland of lemons Four paintings on their original canvas: Plums : 245,5 x 35 cm Cherries : 132 x 35 cm Apples : 132,5 x 35,5 cm Lemons : 131 x 35 cm Bears on the frame handwritten labels: PV GALLAND painter decorator 1822/1892 model of the fruits of the frieze of the room of orange trees of the new City Hall of Paris put in place in 1903. These four decorative elements are preparatory to the decoration of the vault of the Galerie des Métiers in the Hôtel de Ville de Paris which connects the main staircase to the dining room. Borders of flowers and fruits frame the cartouches of figurative scenes dedicated to Parisian trades. Pierre-Victor Galland received the commission in 1889 and completed the work in 1892. Other comparable, but different, preparatory studies are preserved in the Roubaix museum (see exhibition catalog, "Pierre-Victor Galland 1822-1892, Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle", Roubaix, La Piscine-musée d'Art et d'Industrie André-Diligent and Beauvais, Galerie nationale de la tapisserie, 2006-2007, p. 22, no. 48 and pp. 170-179).