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Marc BRUYAS
Lyon, 1821 - 1896
Oil on canvas
32 x 23 cm (42 x 33 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower left "Bruyas / décembre 1863".
Fine 19th-century carved and gilded wood frame
Marc-Laurent Bruyas was a painter from Lyon who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and was a pupil of Thierriat and Grobon. He exhibited in Lyon from 1860 to 1890 and in Paris from 1863. He was director of the Croix Rousse municipal drawing school.
Our painting dates from 1863. That year, Marc Bruyas made his debut at the Paris Salon, exhibiting a very fine painting that was noted by the critic of the Moniteur des Arts: "Mr. Buyas, from Lyon, made his debut at the Salon with a very good painting: Fleurs sur la margelle d'un puits (...) such a poetic and well-painted canvas. These flowers attest to an excellent artistic organization, which by following its natural development will effortlessly reach the summit where others have so much difficulty in reaching."
In our painting, a bouquet of roses stands in an attractive Empire-period porcelain vase with a cameo motif and a small sculpture of a dog on the right. There are several symbols in this painting: the cameo portrait of the woman, the dog facing the vase (a symbol of fidelity) and the roses in the vase, pink, red and white (symbols of tender, passionate and sincere love).
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