E Antoine Marsal portrait 133x95cm

Singulier and large portrait in foot signed of the mischievous edouard antoine marsal 1845 - 1929-  Very quickly detached from the academism of hutch of which he was a pupil he questioned the morality in many paintings with notably satyr and bacchante, 1887 - he was the friend and portraitist of the collector and famous patron alfred bruyas instigator of the museum fabre, mechanic delacroix and curved- Our portrait plays with a beautiful dynamic contrasts of opposites very bold especially for this double cape lined with ermine color alizarine see red culvert contrasting with the black satin of the dress, the pale complexion see chalky model - malice audacity emerges from the portrait -  Perfect mastery of the drapes, the fine buttoning of the carnation - in the end it's a tactile wear all this satin, this ermine gives the desire to feel the stuff, just the high function of the model prevents me ...  it is the portrait of Professor Dumas, of Montpellier, who "created" the Maternity of the City, now transformed into a conservatory of music. A double of this portrait appears on the walls of the Faculty of Medicine. The decoration on the left actually seems to be the civil order of Leopold, the one on the right being an officer of the academic palms. - I just found an autograph letter from an art critic who spoke much better than I did about the irreverenious e a marsal:  Charles ponsonailhe [pezenas 1855 - 1915] - art critic. "I have staked for all this winter and perhaps several springs, my head, in the plain of the bush, not far from avenue de villiers and the headquarters of the parisian master painters. But I have kept at heart the love of the native bell tower and a strong sympathy for some of my compatriots, you especially, artist -today, I had etched woods hanged [jean-jacques boissieu, painter Lyonnais) and then I found all this tasteless, vulgar. I want to raise, and in the meantime I put in penance in a corner of my dining room all the Flemish and other painters of bambochades. " Very good condition.