Antonio de la Gandara artwork • painting • previously for sale Portrait of lady Jean Puget
Antonio de la Gandara
Parijs 1862-1917
1862-1917
Portrait of lady Jean Puget
oil on canvas 201.0 x 98.5 cm, signed l.l. and painted ca. 1910
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Jean Puget, echtgenoot en opdrachtgever; part. bezit Duitsland.
Literature: tent.cat. Parijs, Grand Palais, 'XXe Salon de la Société Nationale des beaux-arts', 1910, cat.nr. 732; ‘Journal des débats politiques et littéraires’, 14 april 1910; ‘Aux Salons du Grand Palais’, ‘Le Ménestrel’, 7 mei 1910; ‘Les Salons de 1910’, ‘La Gazette des Beaux-Arts’, juni 1910, pag. 477; ‘Le Gaulois’, 8 juni 1911; ‘Je sais tout’ 65, ‘Le Salon de 1910’, 15 juni 1910, pag. 644 (met afb.); Jean Puget, ‘La vie extraordinaire de Forain’, Parijs 1957, pag. 21; Xavier Mathieu, 'Antonio de la Gandara: un témoin de la Belle Époque', Deauville 2011, pag. 164, afb. 189.
Exhibited: Parijs, Grand Palais, 'XXe Salon de la Société Nationale des beaux-arts', 15 april 1910.
Antonio de la Gandara was the society painter of Paris around 1900. His models were princes and princesses, writers, famous singers and actresses. At the annual Salon, his portraits of women were exhibited and discussed admiringly by the critics.
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