Lot n° 68
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Léon FREDERIC (1856-1940) - Lot 68
Léon FREDERIC (1856-1940)
Ardennes landscape. Oil on panel. 29 x 43.5 cm. signed.
Note: Son of a prosperous jeweler, Léon Frédéric was apprenticed to the painter-decorator Charle-Albert in 1871, and attended evening classes at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Brussels. In 1874, he worked in the private studio of Jean-François Portaels. The following year, he joined forces with other young painters to rent a studio where they could study live models.
From 1876 to 1878, he prepared for the Prix de Rome, which he failed to win, but his father offered him a year's travel to Italy from 1878 to 1879. The presentation of his triptychs testifies to the influence of the Italian primitives in his painting.
He made his debut in the Essor art group, which brought together proponents of realism. In 1883, he was hailed as a promising painter with his painting Les Marchands de craie, a triptych combining modernism with the genius of the primitive masters, and in the 1890s he became one of Belgium's most popular painters, cited alongside Constantin Meunier and Eugène Laermans.
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