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Emile De Specht (born in 1843)
Place Pigalle, New Athens and the Cafe Du Rat Mort, 1879
Watercolor
23.5 x 32 cm at sight
46 x 52 cm with its frame
Signed, dated and located 1879, Paris lower right
Wilhelm Émile Charles Adolphe de Specht was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Félix-Joseph Barrias at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he entered in 1861. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1865 to 1897, mainly presenting views of Paris, genre scenes and portraits. He also exhibited a work at the Salon des Refusés in 1873 and at the Salon des Indépendants in 1888. We know him a portrait of Degas, one of Doctor Gachet but also of Manet and Duranty. Artists he probably rubbed shoulders with in the neighborhood of La Nouvelle Athènes and the Café du Rat Mort, high places of artistic creation and the history of Impressionism.
Our watercolor is probably the one that was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1880 under number 5869
Ref: I7705I78IZ