Charles Auguste Émile Durant, dit Carolus Duran (Lille 1837 - Lot 24

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Charles Auguste Émile Durant, dit Carolus Duran (Lille 1837 - Lot 24
Charles Auguste Émile Durant, dit Carolus Duran (Lille 1837 - 1917 Paris) Portrait, en pied, d'Élisabeth, vicomtesse Greffulhe (1860 - 1952), en robe du soir, sur fond pourpre 1887 Huile sur toile 220 x 115 cm Présenté dans un opulent cadre en bois sculpté et doré, au décor de guirlandes de feuilles et de fruits. Au pied du cadre, cartel gravé identifiant l'artiste. Exposition : - Londres, Royal Academy, "The exhibition of the Royal Academy of the Arts. The one hundred and nineteenth", mai-août 1887, sous le n° 904. Bibliographie : - [cat.exp.] The exhibition of the Royal Academy of the Arts. The one hundred and nineteenth, Londres, 1887, - "Current Art" in: The Magazine of Art, 1887, - "Correspondance d'Angleterre, Expositions d'été de la Royal Academy et de la Grosvenor Gallery" in: Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1887 - "The Royal Academy Exhibition" in: The Art Journal, 1887 - William Sharp, "The Royal Academy and The Salon" in: The National Review, mars-août 1887, - "Art in London in 1887" in: The Month, mai-août 1887, - "The Royal Academy" in: The Saturday Review, 7 mai 1887, - "The Royal Academy" in: The Illustrated London News, 28 mai 1887, - Claude Phillips, "Fine Arts. The Royal Academy" in: The Academy, n°786, 28 mai 1887, - "Art. The Royal Academy [fourth notice]" in: The Spectator, 2 juillet 1887, - Claude Vento, Les peintres de la femme, Paris, Dentu, 1888 - Claude Phillips, "Fine Arts. The Royal Academy" in: The Academy, n°1253, 9 mai 1896, Il a peint la comtesse telle qu'une jeune Victoire, un brin de laurier dans les cheveux, et glacée d'un fourreau d'argent ainsi qu'une naïade. Ses yeux, ardents et foncés, ont envahi son visage menu, pareils à deux lacs de sombre clarté, qui rayonnent dans l'ombre » (Montesquiou, "Professionnelles beautés", P P. III, Ch. 2, p. 506). "M. Carolus Duran est représenté à Londres par trois œuvres dont un portrait d'homme assez banal une fort jolie esquisse représentant Me Carolus Duran et le brillant portrait en pied de la Vicomtesse de Greffulhe qui n a pas encore été que je sache exposé à Paris. Ce dernier est superbe de facture et remarquable surtout par les tons merveilleusement vibrants de la robe de satin gris et rose que rehausse encore un superbe fond grenat. L'artiste français a rendu la délicate beauté de Mme de Greffulhe avec plus de distinction qu il ne daigne en accorder généralement aux élégantes mondaines qui posent devant lui mais sans complètement réussir à exprimer le charme individuel et la personnalité de son modèle ". "M. Carolus Duran's full length of the Vicomtesse Greffulhe (904) has no rival in the exhibition as an example of all conquering brush power and legitimate dexterity combined with a brilliancy and force of colour which render its neighbourhood dangerous indeed to all surrounding canvases The subject a young and beautiful woman stands supremely well facing the spectator in a robe of pearl coloured satin with a train of grey touched with pale rose colour the background being a expanse of that jewel like garnet hue which the painter loves Velasquez himself need not have disowned the sober splendours of the dress the legitimate means by which they are obtained though he would not have so the inviting difficulties of the lady's ruff as the modern master has done To the head M Carolus Duran has imparted some vivacity grace with less of distinction than the demands though more than the painter generally vouchsafes." "The painting is brilliant and lifelike to a degree very difficult express Even pictures of sunshine and the large which hang on either side of it look dirty beside the picture La Vicomtesse Greffulhe standing in her dark ball room and work technically is masterly and certain without being obtrusive We do not think of the painter's ability in looking at M pictures though we do feel the fact of his skill Besides which this painter has the power to express or rather to endow sitters with a certain magnificence of gesture His people elegant and wear their clothes naturally as if they were to an inheritance of splendour and to an artificiality has become second nature so wholly has it subdued their spirit and such as the artist shows them to us we feel certain they are at all events on that brilliant outside with alone he concerns himself God and the milliner together produced these people and such as they are M Carolus has painted them One feels tempted to say of these " "M. Carolus Duran is represented by a superb full length of Mme la Vicomtesse Greffulhe, one of his finest works."
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