The two friends

Watercolor

Signed lower left 

Dimensions: 35 x 27 cm

With frame 80 x 68 cm

The watercolorist gives us here a scene of very tender bond between  a little girl and her pet.

A decor made up of multiple works of art: paintings, sculptures,   tapestry, rugs and drawing board let imagine the interior of an artist or an art lover.

Note the excellent craftsmanship of the watercolorist whose mastery of the brush serves the anecdote with great delicacy.  

Self-taught, Théophile Emmanuel Duverger trained in painting and watercolor by studying the works of great masters in museums. His attentive eye absorbs and reproduces their technique and their colors, their play of light ...

His personal learning has the advantage of letting his art and his inspiration evolve freely, outside the constraints of production and the canons attached to the workshops.  

The artist begins at the Salon of 1846; he won several medals. He settled in 1860 in Ecouen, near Paris, and joined the colony of painters of Ecouen; commune which becomes one of the most famous centers of genre painting. The reputation extends to Great Britain and the auction houses of the United States compete for the works.