Adrien DAUZATS - Shrine of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey

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Adrien DAUZATS - Shrine of Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey

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Oil on canvas 76 x 88 cm Provenance : N°82 Dauzats’ sale, 1-4 février 1869, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (stamped on the back) Related work : Adrien Dauzats, Interior of Westminster Abbey, with Edward the Confessor's shrine, oil on canvas, 43 x 53 cm, anonymous sale of March 24 2010, Paris, Drouot, Tajan, lot 127 Adrien Dauzats had begun learning painting from his family and specialized at first in scenography. After his training in Paris by Michel Julien Gué, he was quickly noticed by Baron Taylor in 1827, and was invited to travel with him in Spain, Egypt and Middle-East to draw for his book series Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France (1820 - 1878). Being a part of the “romanticism group” in Paris, Dauzats was a very close friend to Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. We often find traces of Orientalism in Dauzats’s works. Also, in his artworks, architecture is always his primary focus. Dauzats paid high attention and depicted with precision, hence, his works come with great historical and cultural value. With Baron Taylor, Dauzats had traveled several times to London. In 1835, he was recommended by the Baron to paint the chapel in Westminster Abbey “the chapel of Westminster if it suits you, and even the chapel of Windsor if it suits you still" (1). Our work presents the shrine of Edward III the Confessor (1003 - 1066) in this church. Son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy, Edward III became king in 1043. Founder of Westminster Abbey, in the heart of London, on the ruins of a former monastery, he died there in 1066, leaving no descendants. William the Conqueror (1027-1087) pointed out his kinship with the deceased king to claim the throne of England. Two centuries later, Henry III built the present church in a Gothic style, thus highlighting the tomb of Edward the Confessor. This work appears in the artist’s after-death sale’s catalog and is classified among the unfinished works, or perhaps we should consider the sketched style Dauzats’s own choice. In places, the material seems quickly brushed on the light background. But everything helps to create a contrast between the cold light on the left and the warm, orange light of the sun-drenched chapels on the right, whose rays reach the centre of the tomb. As a lover of the interior view of churches, this work is a very beautiful example in which Dauzats perfectly shows his virtuosity and his romanticism taste for the painting. (1) Adrien Dauzats et les Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France du baron Taylor, Fondation Taylor, 1990, p. 285

Creator:
Adrien Dauzats (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.93 in (76 cm)Width: 34.65 in (88 cm)Depth: 3.94 in (10 cm)
Style:
Other (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Canvas,Paint,Oiled,Painted
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1830-1880
Condition:
Work with frame.
Seller Location:
PARIS, FR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU7846235409242