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Portrait of Monsier E.G***
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Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre
Portrait of Monsier E.G***, 1861
oil on canvas
37 by 29 1/8 inches (94 by 74 cm.)
signed and dated lower right: ‘G. de Saint Pierre 1861’
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Provenance

 Private collection, France

Exhibitions

 Salon de l’Académie, Paris, 1861, no. 2779

Literature

 Livret du Salon, Paris, 1861, no. 2779.

E. Bellier and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire general

des artistes de l’école français , Paris, 1885, Vol. II, p. 454.

 Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre was a painter of genre, portraits and mythological

scenes in both oils and pastel. He was born in Nîmes on May 12, 1833 and

commenced his studies with Charles François Jalabert (1819-1901) and Léon

Cogniet (1794-1880). As mentors, these two artists instilled in Saint-Pierre their

solid knowledge of academic painting and technique.

 

Saint-Pierre made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1861 with the present work,

and the original exhibition label with the Salon number ‘2779’  remains affixed

to the top front of the frame. Saint-Pierre continued to show at the Paris Salon

regularly for the next fifty years. He became a member in 1883 and was later to

sit on both the committee and jury. He was awarded a second-class medal in

1879 and bestowed the Legion d’Honneur in 1881, becoming an officer in 1903.

 

Like many of his colleagues during this time, Saint-Pierre travelled to Algeria

where he became familiar with the culture of North Africa, which influenced his

later Orientalist works. During his long career, he was awarded commissions to

decorate the foyer of the theater in Nîmes, the choir of the Cathedral of d’Oran,

and the celling of the restaurant of Train Bleu in Paris, located near the gare de

Lyon. Saint-Pierre died in Paris in 1916.

 

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