Nicolas ESCALIER - Interior of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice

Nicolas Félix ESCALIER
Paris, 1843 - Paris, 1920
Watercolor
Studio stamp lower left
26 x 36 cm (38.5 x 51.5 cm with frame)
19th-century pitchpin frame

Nicolas Félix Escalier studied painting with Louis Jules André and Élie Delaunay. He was admitted to the second round of the Concours de Rome in 1863. Nicolas Escalier was registered in 1868 as an architect, painter and decorator. In 1871, he travels to Italy, and from 1873 onwards devotes himself to painting.
Nicolas Escalier created a number of decorations for luxurious residences (châteaux de Créville, for Count Witzhum in Baden-Baden, Germany, with painted decoration, circa 1889, Fitz-James in Clermont (Oise) for banker Jacques Stern in 1888) and hotels in Paris (for Sarah Bernhardt in 1876 and 1882, for painter Roger Jourdain, for painter Guillaume Dubufe, the future Henner museum in 1873, for Hermann de Clermont in 1879-81...).
He also designed sets for the Cercle de l'Union artistique on rue Boissy d'Anglas in 1889, and as painter and decorator for the Hôtel Fabry, La Bonne Aventure, the Andante, the buffet at the Opéra in 1887 under the direction of Charles Garnier, and the Cercle Boissy d'Anglas.
Nicolas Escalier exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, notably in 1873, Interior of San Marco, Venice (a watercolor) and Interior of San Miniato, Florence (watercolor). Our watercolor is a view of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, probably painted around 1873, also after the artist's trip to Italy. This watercolor bears the stamp of Nicolas Escalier's studio.

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