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Alfred PLAUZEAU
Avanton-Paché (Vienne), 1875 - Hendaye, 1918
Oil on oil
61 x 38 cm (75.5 x 52.5 cm with the frame)
Signed lower right "A. Plauzeau".
A native of Poitou, Plauzeau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme from 1897 and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1900.
He adopted two styles, an academic one, faithful to his master Gerôme on historical and allegorical subjects and portraits, and an impressionist style for local subjects on the life of the people of Poitou. He was successful in both genres, winning prizes and medals, but his career was short lived as he died in 1917.
Our painting is a very beautiful portrait in a style still very close to Gérôme's with a great precision of the drawing, a remarkable rendering of the models and lively and cheerful colors.
In 1985, the Musée Sainte-Croix in Poitiers devoted an important retrospective to this unjustly ignored painter.
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