Watercolor, Mother and Child, signed Felix Joseph Barrias

Joseph Barrias Felix (1822-1907)

"Mother and Child"

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Beautiful watercolor of a beautiful Italian catching a bunch of grapes for her child.

watercolor signed lower right.

dedicated lower left "to Madame Hitorff his most devoted"

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Hittorff Madame (1804-1870) is the daughter of architect Jean-Baptiste Lepère (1761-1844) and wife of Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867) the architect of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, the Cirque d'Hiver, the layout of the place La Concorde, hotels ... He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1844, with its Cincinnatus receiving the ambassadors of the Senate (School of Fine Arts) executed in the neoclassical tradition. He won several medals, including the third-class medal in 1847 for Sappho, the first-class medal in 1851 for the Exile of Tiberius, another medal in 1855 for the Jubilee of 1300 and a gold medal at the Exposition of 1889.

He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and the Order of Leopold of Belgium.

He received important commissions official:

-Sets for churches Saint-Eustache (1856) and Trinity (1867 and 1876).

-The Museum of Amiens where he performed a dome and a pendant in 1865. The great

-cap Prince Nariskin in St. Petersburg in 1866.

-The ceiling pendants and four in the foyer of the Opera de Paris in 1874. The set-

flag of Argentina at the Universal Exhibition of 1889.

Three-domes and various decorations in the Hotel de Ville in Paris in 1890 ...



His works are preserved in many museums: Autun, Chalons-sur-Marne, Cologne, Douai, Laval, Lille, Nantes , Nimes, Paris Louvre Museum, Périgueux, Le Puy-en-Velay, Rouen, Tarbes, Versailles ...

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Dimensions:

Watercolor 26 X 18 ... 5 X 38.5 cm

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Superb fresh colors.

Framework Barbizon channel said in gilded wood.

Bibliography:

- Gerald Schurr, "Small masters of painting 1820-1920, value tomorrow," Editions de l'Amateur, Volume II, Paris 1982

- E. Bénézit "critical and documentary dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers' Gründ Edition 1999, vol 1 page 786

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