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Constant Félix SMITH - Athalie's Dream

Name: Constant Félix SMITH - Athalie's Dream
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: KUBPFRH63S
Price: 1350 EUR
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By Gallery Tristan de QUELEN

1.350 €

Period 19th century

Style Empire Style, Consulat

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Constant Félix SMITH
Paris, 1788 - Paris, 1873
The Dream of Athalie
Oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm (43 x 51 cm with frame)
Beautiful 19th-century gilded wood frame
Good condition (craquelures)

The subject of our painting is rare. It is the Songe d'Athalie, from Act II of Athalie, a tragedy by Jean Racine.
"A naked woman lies on a richly carved bed covered with beautiful draperies; she is in the throes of the most horrible nightmare: a child armed with a dagger stands before her, ready to strike. In the background, we see Mother Jezebel, whose clothes are being torn to shreds by devouring dogs." This is the description of Constant Félix Smith's painting as published in the 1853 catalog of the Musée de Nîmes. This is a very large painting (three meters fifty wide) by the French painter Constant Félix Smith, who exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1817 Une sainte Famille and a Portrait de M. B. dans son atelier, in 1819 Moïse et le Serpent d'airain and Un Portrait and in 1822 Le Songe d'Athalie. Attributed to the Musée de Nîmes by the French State in 1836, the painting has since disappeared.
Constant Félix was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David and Anne-Louis Girodet.
Our painting can be compared with another sketch by the same painter, preserved in the Petit Palais, for his church painting Moses and the Bronze Serpent for the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church in Paris.

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Additional Information

Condition	Good
Style	Empire Style, Consulat (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes of Empire Style, Consulat Style)
Period	19th century (Paintings Genre scenes, Nudes 19th century)
Country of origin	France
Artist	Constant Félix SMITH
Width (cm)	46
Height (cm)	38
Materials	Oil on canvas