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Theophile Narcisse Chauvel
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven (Do you Know the Country)

1889

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Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven (Do you Know the Country -Spring) Etching, 1889 Signed "Julius Rolshoven" in pencil lower left; signed "N. Chauvel" in pencil lower right Publisher: Librairie de l'Art, Paris This etching goes through 10 states according to Delteil. This is a deluxe impression printed on vellum with a remarque of a flower in the margin near the pencil signature of Chauvel. After a work by Julius Rolshoven (American, 1858-1930), this piece is signed in pencil by both artists Image/Plate size 17 3/8 x 12 1/2 inches Condition: Excellent condition Hinge residue top edge verso Provenance: Edmund Sagot, Paris By decent References: Delteil 126, prior to state vii/X, a proof with flower remarque in the bottom margin IFF 91 Painter, etcher and lithographer, born in Paris, pupil of Picot, Bellel, Aligby, attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1854, and exhibited at the Salon from 1858 to 1904. Legion of Honour in 1896. (British Museum) A pupil of François-Édouard Picot and Jean-Joseph Bellel, Théophile Chauvel entered the Imperial School of Fine Arts on March 4, 1854. In the same year he won second prize in Rome for historical landscape. His first entry to the Salon dates from 1855. He painted and exhibited until 1859. At that time, he devoted himself to dry point, a type of lithography and etching, from 1861 to 1867, representing, among other things, views of the forest of Fontainebleau , then reproductions of works by the masters of the Barbizon school. From 1874-1875, he worked for the annual album L'Eau forte and the magazine L'Art , which he became director of in the 1890s and in which were reproduced his prints after Théodore Rousseau , Jules Dupré , Narcissus Díaz de la Peña or Charles-François Daubigny. But it is in his engravings of interpretation of Corot that he asserts all his mastery. Chauvel was a medalist at the Salon in 1870, 1873 and 1878. He won the medal of honor at the Salon des Artistes Français, the first awarded to the engraving section, in 1881. He was awarded the grand prix of the Salon in 1889 and 1900. He was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1879, then promoted to Officer of the same order in 1896. (1st Dibs)
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