Charles Suan, The Hunter and His Dog, 1839, Signed French Romantic Oil on Canvas, Framed
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Description
▾The dog looks up at the man. The man looks out at us, and the gun stands between them like a third figure.
Oil on canvas, 18 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm), framed 22 x 18 inches (56 x 46 cm). Signed and dated 1839 lower right. French School, in a period gilt frame with carved corner ornaments.
A young man in a dark shooting coat stands full length on a path, his gun grounded at his right hand, his cap held low in the left. A French pointing dog sits at his feet in a marked white and liver coat. Behind them the ground falls away to a river valley with a distant town, and a bank of grey cloud crosses the sky from the left with a single opening of blue above his head.
The autumn foliage on either side is worked in short dry touches, and a fallen trunk closes the composition on the right. The face is finished with the care of a commissioned likeness while the landscape is painted broadly, which is the usual division of labour in a portrait of this kind.
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France, 1839 Shooting in France had passed out of the hands of the old landed order and become the sport of men who owned land because they had bought it. A gun, a trained pointing dog and a coat cut for the field were what that ownership looked like, and a full length portrait out of doors with all three was how it was recorded. |
The canvas has never been relined. It sits on its original keyed stretcher with all eight keys in place, and two old patch repairs are visible on the reverse. The restorations that go with them can be seen in the sky and along the lower edge.
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Details
▾Artist
Charles SUAN (1810-1879)Period
1839Origin
FranceStyle
French RomanticismMedium
Oil on canvasSignature
Signed and dated 1839, lower rightFrame
Period gilt frame with carved corner ornaments of grapes and foliage, on a wide cove with a beaded inner edge. The gilding is rubbed at the corners and along the outer edge, with small losses.Features
Original, one of a kind, signed, dated, framedDimensions
▾Painting
18 x 15 inchesFramed
22 x 18 inchesCondition
Unlined canvas on its original keyed stretcher, all eight keys present, with two old patch repairs on the reverse. Old restorations are visible in the sky and along the lower edge in the photographs.
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