Henri GERVEX (1852-1929) Forest landscape, oil on canvas, provenance: Sotheby's, December 6, 1991. Signed by the Author on the front H Gervex. Henri Gervex (10 December 1852 – 7 June 1929) was a French painter who studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel, Pierre-Nicolas Brisset, and Eugene Fromentin. He was entrusted with several important official paintings and the decoration of public buildings. Among the first are The Distribution of Awards (1889) at the Palais de l'Industrie, The Coronation of Nicolas II, The Mayors' Banquet (1900), and the portrait group La Republique Francaise; and among the second, the ceiling for the Salle des Fetes (ballroom) at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and the decorative panels painted in conjunction with Emile-Henri Blanchon for the mairie of the 19th arrondissement, Paris. For this work, Gervex received the Legion of Honor. He also painted, with Alfred Stevens, a panorama, The History of the Century (1889). The Musee du Luxembourg holds his painting Satyr Sporting with a Bacchante. While traveling in Russia in 1893, he was commissioned by Czar Nicholas II to paint his coronation and individual portraits of the royal family. In 1913 he was elected to the Academie des Beaux-Arts. His house and studio at 68 rue de Chavreau in Paris, which he built in the 1890s to give him the space to create large-scale works including his commissions for Nicholas II, was later purchased by dancer Isadora Duncan. Provenance: Sotheby's, Monaco, December 9, 1991, lot 542. Size 26x48 cm.

Good condition

26 x 48 cm