Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
An incredible and very large signed oil on canvas by Charles Lucien Muller the French genre painter.
The work is in its original frame, unlined original canvas and has exhibition numbers verso and is fully titled by the artist.
Subject: “Travail a Plaisir”
Signature: Signed lower left & signed and titled verso
Medium: Oil on original unlined canvas
Size: 28 x 21 inches unframed / 35 x 28 framed
Condition: Unlined original canvas – needs some very very minor retouching
Charles Louis Muller studied at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1831, under Baron Gros and Léon Cogniet. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1834 and was the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including a third-class medal in 1838, a second-class medal in 1846, and first-class medals in 1848 and 1855. A Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1849, and an Officier in 1850. He became a member of the Institut de France in 1864, and was director of the Gobelins tapestry workshops.
Muller’s orthodox, highly academic painting – exemplified in his Salon entry of 1850, The roll-call of the last victims of the Terror- enjoyed immediate public success. He was commissioned to decorate a number of ceilings in the Louvre, notably four compositions representing periods in the history of French art (under St Louis, François I, Louis XIV and Napoleon I); eight symbolic figures; and Fame distributing her palms and crowns, on the cupola of the Mollien staircase.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Ajaccio: Lady Macbeth
Amiens (Mus. de Picardie): Lady Macbeth
Carcassonne: André Chénier at the Conciergerie
Le Havre: Young girl with a goat
Lille: The madness of Haydée; The game; Give us Barabbas
London (Wallace Collection): An Odalisque (c. 1850s, oil on canvas)
Lyons (MBA): The exile of young Irish Catholic women; Napoleon’s mother
Mulhouse: Beauty
Paris (Mus. du Petit Palais): Enfranchisement of the communes
Versailles: Roll-call of the condemned under the Terror; Opening session of the Senate; Roll-call of the last victims of the Terror
Auction Records
Paris, 24 May 1991: Study, Taste (oil on canvas, a pair, each 35½ × 20 ins/90 × 51 cm) FRF 75,000
Monaco, 21 June 1991: Young peasant girl picking petals from a daisy, beside a young soldier (oil on canvas, 57½ × 46 ins/146 × 116 cm) FRF 55,500
New York, 20 Feb 1992: Bathing in the sea (oil on canvas, 41¾ × 29¾ ins/106 × 75.6 cm) USD 9,900
London, 17 June 1992: Young soubrette listening at the drawing-room door (oil on canvas, 38½ × 28¼ ins/98 × 72 cm) GBP 3,300
Paris, 15 Dec 1994: Portrait, thought to be of the actress Rachel (oil on canvas, 51¼ × 36¼ ins/130 × 92 cm) FRF 25,000
Paris, 29 Jan 1996: Ophelia (pastel, 32¼ × 25½ ins/82 × 65 cm) FRF 5,500
Amsterdam, 22 April 1997: Lady reclining upon a sofa (oil on canvas, 38¼ × 31 ins/97 × 79 cm) NLG 42,480
New York, 9 Feb 1999: Mother’s ride (oil on canvas, 41 × 33 ins/105 × 84 cm) USD 31,000
London, 17 June 1999: Eastern Beauty (oil on canvas, 28 × 22 ins/71 × 55 cm) GBP 9,000
London, 29 March 2001: La ronde du mai (c. 1846-7, oil on canvas, 61 × 84 ins/156 × 214 cm) GBP 30,000
London, 11 July 2001: Portrait of a Young Man, possibly M Aucanne (black chalk heightened with white, 22 × 17 ins/55 × 43 cm) GBP 5,500
Michigan, 15 Jan 2003: Girl in Landscape (oil on canvas, 37 × 26 ins/94 × 66 cm) USD 8,500
Radolfzell, 3 July 2004: Spinner Woman in Traditional Italian Dress (1862, oil on canvas, 28 × 20 ins/70 × 50 cm) EUR 5,000
Charles L. Muller (1815-1892 Fr) Scene of two
Mar 26, 10:00 PM EST
Charles L. Muller (1815-1892 Fr) Scene of two
by Rose Hill Auction Gallery
Est: $10,000- $15,000
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Charles Louis Lucien Muller (Paris 1815-1892)
Oct 13, 5:00 AM GMT
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Charles Louis Lucien Muller (Paris 1815-1892) Large Oil on Canvas
