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French painter, pastellist, engraver and illustrator
Tea time
Oil on panel
Dimensions: 44 x 47 cm
Gilberte Cournand Collection (label on the back of the painting)
Stamp of the workshop lower right
Tea time takes place between the modern and subtle compositions of Helleu and those more suburban by Forain or Willette. Two women are having tea with a third interlocutor who is supposed to be the painter.
The interior is modest, three paintings are hung on the wall, a curtain is hung in the background. The women are seated on Thonet 14 chairs, at the time sold for the price of a bottle of table wine.
The nudity of the young woman in the background and the palette placed next to the cups show that the painter offers tea to his models after or before a posing session. The painting reflects the love of life and of women. The scene is borrowed from the veracity and the sweetness of the anecdote.
Louis Legrand was born in 1963 in Dijon. Painter, watercolorist, engraver and illustrator, he is a multifaceted artist.
After training at the School of Fine Arts in Dijon, he went to the capital in 1884 and became a student of the brilliant and scandalous Félicien Rops who introduced him to all techniques. He made a career in Paris until his death in 1951.
