Signed and dated 1882 portrait of a puppy by Charles Chaplin, oil on bare mahogany panel in a carved gilt frame

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Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891), Portrait of a Puppy, Signed and Dated 1882, Oil on Mahogany Panel, Framed

Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891)

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The small framed panel on a pale wall above a chest of drawers, no wider than the drawer front

The framed panel seen from the side, showing the depth of the beaded moulding

The head close, the dark mask around the eyes and muzzle worked in thin glazes over the fawn coat

The signature at the lower left, painted directly onto the bare wood

Signed bottom left and dated bottom right 1882

The framed panel in natural light, the wood ground reading warm against the gilding

The signature at the lower left and the date at the lower right, painted directly onto the bare mahogany

The vertical split running the height of the panel at the upper right, with the bare mahogany and the frame moulding beside it

The ear laid over the bare mahogany, the grain of the wood running vertically through the paint and out into the untouched panel beside it

The dark mask worked in thin glazes over the fawn, with the mahogany showing through the paint on either side of the head

Reverse showing the cardboard backing and the handwritten inscription in ink (signed Chaplin puppy portrait 1882)

The panel is the background. Bare mahogany, its warm red grain running vertically behind the dog, with no ground laid over it and no paint anywhere it was not needed.

Oil on mahogany panel, 9 1/2 x 6 2/3 inches (24 x 17 cm), 13 x 10 1/4 inches (33 x 26 cm) framed. Signed lower left and dated 1882 lower right, the last figures covered by the rebate of the frame. French, in a carved and gilded frame.

A young dog seen close, cut at the chest, its head turned to the viewer. The fawn coat is laid in with broad soft strokes, while the head is modelled with more attention, the dark mask around the eyes and muzzle worked in thin glazes. The ears fall soft against the head and the forelegs are barely indicated, so that everything holds on the gaze.

The dog's name was Souki
The back of the panel carries a note in ink giving the animal a name, Souki, the family she belonged to, and a date in March 1964 when the picture passed from one hand to another. Eighty years after it was painted, somebody thought it worth writing down who the dog had been. Almost no animal picture of this age still knows its own name.

The mahogany panel carries a vertical split, restored with a cardboard backing at the reverse, and remains slightly curved.

Provenance ▾

Private collection, Rouen, France

Artist

Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825-1891)

Period

1882

Origin

France

Style

Academic

Medium

Oil on mahogany panel

Signature

Signed lower left, dated 1882 lower right

Frame

Carved and gilded frame with a beaded outer moulding and a foliate inner course, the gilding worn to the red bole, with losses and gaps at the joints.

Features

Original, one of a kind, signed

Painting

9 1/2 x 6 2/3 inches

Framed

13 x 10 1/4 inches

Condition

Good condition for its age. The panel carries a vertical split, restored with a cardboard backing at the reverse, and remains slightly curved. The paint surface is stable.

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