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Paul Louis Léger CHARDIN (Paris, 1833 - Paris, 1918)
Animated view of the interior of the Chapelle de Kermaria an Isquit in Plouha
Watercolor on paper
Dedicated, signed and dated lower right to Louis Léger / Souvenir de la chapelle de Kermaria Nisquit / G. Chardin 1903
25 x 35 cm
Original wood and gilded stucco frame with twisted ribbon decoration
Dimensions with frame: 53 x 65 cm
Note: the artist exhibited a work entitled Intérieur de la chapelle de Kermaria-Nisquit (Côtes-du-Nord) at the 1872 Salon, under number 298. The work is signed G. Chardin and not P. Chardin. Perhaps this is a late work by the painter Gabriel-Gervais Chardin (Paris, 1814 - Paris, 1907), which he dedicated to his colleague and namesake Paul Chardin, who had painted this subject, hence the dedication...
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