HENRI GÉNOIS (Né à Paris en 1847) Lot n° 47

The Heron Hunt 1874 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower left 88 x 134 cm Henri Génois, who exhibited at the Salon from 1868 onwards, was probably inspired by Eugène Fromentin's The Heron Hunt, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1865 and then at the Universal Exhibition in 1867. Fromentin "s painting is now in Chantilly. Another version by the same painter, preserved at Orsay, presents a Falcon Hunt in Algeria: the Curse (1865) with the two black and white horses on the right. Here Henri Génois breaks away from the Romantic tradition by transposing the scene to the medieval period, in the troubadour style.