Jules Bertrand GELIBERT - Portrait of a spaniel

Jules-Bertrand GELIBERT
Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes Pyrénées), 1834 – Capbreton (Landes), 1916
Oil on panel
Signed lower right “Jules-Brd Gélibert”
32 x 40.5 cm (41 x 49 cm with frame)

Enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, Jules-Bertrand Gélibert was first a student of his father Paul and the sculptor Bernard Griffoul-Dorval. If he first exhibited sculptures, it was already a portrait of a dog that he created in 1860 with the statue of “Druid”, a dog of the Prince Imperial.
But Jules Bertrand Gélibert is first known today as a painter of hunting and hunting dogs. His workshop was located in Montmartre, 17 boulevard Pigalle. In 1861 he obtained an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1865 he lived in Clamart and was a student of Louis-Godefroy Janin, the great painter specializing in dogs. We know that he also painted with his brother and when Jules painted animals, Gaston painted landscapes.
Among his famous hunting paintings, in 1875 a "Hallali of deer in the ponds of Belle Croix" in the forest of Fontainebleau was noted. Critics admire “the vigor of drawing and color, of movement and the acuity of observation”. At the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and that of 1900, he obtained bronze medals.
A great fan of hunting, he followed the Sivry Rally in Fontainebleau and the Bois Boudran crew with Count Greffulhe as well as the hunts of Baron de Lassus. At the initiative of the Société Centrale Canine chaired by the Prince of Wagram, the Salon of hunting and hunting painters and sculptors was founded in 1890, chaired by Jules-Bertrand Gélibert. It was held from 1890 to 1912 in the Orangery of the Jardin des Tuileries.
In addition to museums (in New York, London, Paris, Bagnères, Cambrai, Saint-Etienne and Tarbes), the paintings of Jules-Bertrand Gélibert are today also found in numerous French castles and residences (at the Murat family, Wagram, Carayon-Latour...).
(Sources: Benezit Dictionary, the Great Universal Dictionary of the 19th century by Mr. Pierre Larousse, the animalartparis.com site)

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