Charles Chaplin

Les Bulles de Savon - Etching by Charles Chaplin - 1870s

1870s

Le Bain is an artwork realized by Charles Chaplin in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:23x13 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative o...

Le Repas Des Enfants is an artwork realized by Edwards Davis in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the p...

Beautiful lithograph on wove paper with a watermark, BFK Rives, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1900. Title "Les bulles de savon" (The Soap Bubble Game) lithographed by Jules-Gabriel Dubois-Menant (1855-1921), after the painting by Joseph Bail (1862-1921) The lithograph is in very good condition with a small amount of sunning on the right edge of the sheet that will not be visible when the print is framed. Dimensions: "Les bulles de savon" print: Sheet: 320 x 456 mm - Engraving: 210 x 305 mm + signature Engraved signature: Duboismenant below the lithograph on the right & Embossed stamp/Signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts below the print in the lower right corner. Jules Gabriel Dubois-Menant (1855-1921) was a French painter, lithographer, and photographer specializing in portraiture. In addition to portraits painted in oils and pastels, he produced original and reproduction lithographs. He was a member of the Society of French Lithographers, for which he wrote a booklet. He participated in the series of Painters-Lithographers albums from 1892 onward, and later joined the Society of Painters-Lithographers. One of his notable lithographs is The Old Goat Sheepfold, as well as a portrait of Jules Verne (Salon of 1897). Joseph Bail (1862-1921) was a French naturalist painter. Younger brother of the painter Franck Bail (1858-1924), Joseph Bail received his first training from his father, Antoine Jean Bail (1830-1919), a practitioner of the realist tradition of genre subjects, before passing through the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Carolus-Duran[2]. As a teenager, he produced his first still lifes in 1878 (Sea Fish and Oysters). A year later, he presented works at the Salon des Artistes Français. A few years later, he became one of the youngest recipients of the medal of honor for his painting Trinkets from the Cluny Museum at the Salon of 1886, then for his famous The Kitchen Boy (1887). Passionate about the world of gastronomy, he painted food as much as those who helped to prepare it. He portrays the kitchen boys in different ways in La Cigarette ou Le Repos (1892), as well as in La Besogne faite (1893), where the young assistant, slumped on a chair, casually smokes a cigarette. He continued in the same vein with Les Cuisiniers (1894), Reflections of the Sun (1895), and Battle of Dogs (1896). He received the gold medal at the 1900 World's Fair for three major works: Le Goûter (Tea Time), Bulles de savon (Soap Bubbles), and La Servante (The Maid).[4] The Société Française des Amis des Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous eminent subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...

This is an etched rendition of a painting by Frank Dicksee. Harmony is one of the most well-known pictures by Dicksee, depicting a young man staring adoringly into the eyes of a girl...