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Louis DauvergneThe bather and the artist: the bashful nude naturalist French oil paintingca 1885
ca 1885
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It's just a little embarassing. Our young bather went for a skinny dip in the river and now needs to snatch her clothes without being spotted by the elderly artist on the river bank who is painting en plein air and is as yet blissfully unaware of her.
Fresh and with beautiful colours, this is a little gem of a painting.
The rare and interesting artist who painted it is Louis Dauvergne. A French provincial landowner's son, Louis spent two years in Rome as a young man, where he discovered a passion for painting. Upon his return to France, he stubbornly refused to take over the family farm as his father had hoped, and instead went to study painting in Paris.
He joined the studio of Thomas Couture , whom he frequented for many years, where he had Puvis de Chavannes as a fellow student and where he met Édouard Manet. Dauvergne exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1863.
With a private income, Louis painted for pleasure only.
With a tendency towards nonchalence and not particularly industrious, Louis probably didn't push himself as hard as he might have done. With more perseverance, he would easily have managed to occupy a great place in art, and would certainly have become a figure of reference.
Immensely talented, Dauvergne's painting is imbued with poetry, as as the present painting shows, he renders human skin with mastery.
Painted on a panel measuring 19 x 11 cm; our painting is signed by Dauvergne at the lower right. It is presented in its original frame.
- Creator:Louis Dauvergne (1828 - 1899, French)
- Creation Year:ca 1885
- Dimensions:Height: 14.57 in (37 cm)Width: 11.42 in (29 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
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- Condition:bronze paint over the originally gilded frame.
- Gallery Location:Norwich, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU991315986752
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