(Skizzenblatt mit Figuren, Insekten und Pflanzen / Sketch sheet with figures, insects and plants) - Asia Asien / Orientalismus Orientalism / Zeichnung drawing dessin

Clairin, Georges (1843-1919):

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Blatt-Maße: ca. 30 x 42,5 cm. Bleistift-Zeichnung -- Mit Signatur-Stempel. -- etwas fleckig, sonst gut erhalten || Pencil drawing -- With signature stamp. -- somewhat staianed, otherwise in very good condition || || Georges Jules Victor Clairin was a French portrait, genre, history and oriental painter. From 1861 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Isidore Pils and François-Edouard Picot. He exhibited his works at the Paris Salons from 1866. He traveled to Spain with the painter Henri Regnault and the Swiss sculptor Marcello (Adèle d Affry) and to Italy with the painters François Flameng and Jean-Léon Gérôme. He met the Catalan painter Marià Fortuny during a stay in Morocco, where they visited Tetouan together. In 1895 he traveled to Egypt with the composer Camille Saint-Saëns. From his travels through exotic countries, Georges Clairin brought back many, mostly sketch-like pictures of Orientalism. He later settled in Paris and became known as a portrait, genre and history painter. He became best known for his portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, with whom he had a long-standing friendship. He portrayed them both in their home and in their stage costumes. Clairin was also involved in ceiling painting. He created plafonds in the foyer of the Opéra Garnier in Paris (1874) and in the Theater of Cherbourg, Grand Theater of Tours, Theater of Epernay and in the dome of the Paris Stock Exchange. Clairin also painted twenty large-scale paintings for the Cousiño Palace in Santiago de Chile, many of which were destroyed by fire in 1968. Georges Clairin was the best man of Louis Besnard, son of the painter Albert Besnard, at his wedding on December 19, 1898. In 1878 he bought the castle of Magnanville, which he sold in 1898 to the aristocrat Alfred de Gramont (1856 1915). Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 35. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 288747

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