Full view of the framed canvas, blossoming tree and thatched farm with hens, in its carved gilt swept frame

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Paul Emmanuel Péraire, Blossoming Tree and Farmyard, Signed Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, Framed

Paul Emmanuel Péraire (1829-1893)

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Signed Péraire spring farm landscape hung alone on a panelled wall below a crystal chandelier

Close view in daylight of the blossoming tree and thatched farm, the age craquelure visible across the sky

Reverse of the unlined canvas on its keyed stretcher, with the red label of a Paris house and the chalk canvas size

Angled view showing the depth of the carved and gilded swept frame around the signed spring landscape

The scroll and shell carving of the gilt frame with its engraved brass name plate below the canvas

Engraved brass name plate reading Paul Péraire, riveted to the gilt frame below the painted grass

Oblique view of the framed landscape showing the relief of the carved gilt ornament

Side view of the framed canvas with the artist signature visible at the lower left

Signature P. Péraire in black at the lower left, among wildflowers touched in orange and blue

Macro of the blossom built in thick dabs of cream impasto over a thin grey sky

Macro of the hens and cockerel by the straw heap, each bird built in four or five strokes

Macro of the tiled and thatched farm buildings with the brick outhouse and hens in the yard

The blossoming tree seen whole against the thin grey sky, the canvas weave showing through

Macro of the frame corner, the gilding worn through to the red bole on the carved leaf ornament

Paul Emmanuel Péraire, Blossoming Tree and Farmyard, Signed Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, Framed

Red label of the Paris American Art Co, 2 rue Bonaparte, numbered 8057 in ink on the stretcher

Number 8057 written in pencil on the stretcher bar, matching the number on the paper label

Standard French canvas size marked in chalk on the stretcher bar above an old ink inscription

A single tree in white blossom fills the left of the canvas, laid on thick and worked wet into wet, while the grey sky behind it is scraped almost bare. The whole weight of the paint is in the flowering branches.

Oil on canvas, unlined, 10 x 16 inches (25 x 41 cm), 12 x 18 inches (30 x 46 cm) framed. Signed P. Peraire lower left. French, late nineteenth century, in a carved and gilded swept frame.

A farm sits behind the tree, its white wall catching the only other light in the picture, a tiled roof above it and a long thatched barn to the right. A path of pale earth runs up towards it, and a cockerel and six hens feed along the grass in the right foreground beside a heap of loose straw laid on as thickly as the blossom. Dark conifers close the view on the right. The handling changes with the subject. The blossom is built in loaded touches that stand off the canvas, the grass is dragged in short strokes of acid green, and the sky is thin enough that the weave shows through.

Sold to an American, in Paris
The label on the back is that of the Paris American Art Company, 2 rue Bonaparte, opposite the École des Beaux-Arts. The name says who the customers were. They sold French pictures to Americans in Paris and shipped them home, and the stock number 8057 is written on the label and again in chalk on the stretcher. This canvas has probably crossed the Atlantic once already.

The canvas has never been relined and sits on its original keyed stretcher, with the standard French canvas size still legible in chalk beside the label.

Provenance ▾

The Paris American Art Co, 2 rue Bonaparte, Paris, stock number 8057

Artist

Paul Emmanuel Péraire (1829-1893)

Period

Late 19th century (circa 1870 to 1895)

Origin

France

Style

Barbizon School

Medium

Oil on canvas

Signature

Signed P. Peraire lower left

Frame

Ornate swept frame with scroll and shell ornament, beaded inner edge, engraved brass name plate at the lower edge, the gilding worn through to the red bole on the raised ornament, with small losses to the carved ornament.

Features

Original, one of a kind, signed

Painting

10 x 16 inches

Framed

12 x 18 inches

Condition

Good original condition. Unlined and stable on its original keyed stretcher, with the fine craquelure normal to a nineteenth century canvas, most visible across the sky.

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