FRENCH ANIMALIER Drawing ~ RESTING LIONESS ~ 19th Century Edmé SAINT-MARCEL

Description: An original sanguine conte drawing study from French Animalier artist Edmé Saint-Marcel (1819-1890). It depicts a female lion at rest and it is signed with the artist's monogram in the lower right. It is mounted in a good antique French mat and a simple hardwood frame. The image measures 5 x 8 inches, when including mat & frame, the dimensions are 11 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Paper shows mild age toning, frame shows a bit of minor scuffing, otherwise all in excellent condition. Charles Edmé Saint-Marcel-Cabin (1819-1890), known as Edmé Saint-Marcel, was a pupil of Léon Cogniet, Théodore Aligny and, most significantly, Eugène Delacroix. Saint-Marcel worked with Delacroix as an assistant and collaborator on several of the master’s large decorative mural projects. He made his debut at the Salon of 1848, and continued to exhibit both paintings and etchings there regularly. Perhaps best known as an animalier, Saint-Marcel was particularly admired for his studies of lions. He was also highly regarded as a painter of landscapes, particularly of the area around the forest of Fontainebleau, where he lived for most of his life. The majority of extant drawings by Edme Saint-Marcel are characterized by a bold and vigorous use of the pen with rich tones of dark brown ink, in a manner strongly influenced by that of Delacroix. (Indeed, Saint-Marcel’s drawings have at times been confused with those of the more famous artist, while Delacroix is apocryphally said to have occasionally copied figures from the younger man’s drawings.) Saint-Marcel had a particular penchant for drawings of wild animals, an interest no doubt stimulated by Delacroix’s own fascination with the theme. A large and varied group of drawings by Saint-Marcel, numbering twenty-two sheets, is today in the Musée Bonnat in Bayonne, while other significant examples are in the collections of the Louvre and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Pontoise. (biography courtesy of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London)

Price: 195 USD

Location: Brooksville, Florida

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