"Théophile Emmanuel DUVERGER (1821 – 1898)- Watercolor - "
Signed watercolor on the bottom left
Dimensions: 35 x 27 cm, with frame 80 x 68 cm.
The watercolorist gives us here a scene of very tender complicity between a little girl and her pet.
A decor composed of multiple works of art: paintings, sculptures, tapestry, carpets and drawing cardboard lets you imagine the interior of an artist or an art lover. Note the excellent workmanship of the watercolorist whose mastery of the brush serves the anecdote with great delicacy.
Self-taught, Théophile Emmanuel Duverger is 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 debuted 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, a town that became 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.
Bibliography: Gérard Schurr, Pierre Cabane, Dictionary of the little masters of painting, 1820-1920, volume II, Paris, The Editions of the amateur, 1996.
Museums: Bordeaux, Cambrai, Glasgow, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York