Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
This work dates to around 1860 and depcits a portrait of a group of Harem girls in the courtyard of a Riad. This beautiful work is superbly painted and etailed and finely coloured. Its signed lower left and is unlined on its original canvas. Museum quality.
Title: ‘’Harem Girls”
Signature: Signed lower left
Medium: Oil on original canvas
Size: c. 22 x 26 inches unframed
Condition: Unlined original canvas – some small repairs otherwise very good for age
Born c. 1825, in Amsterdam, to French parents.
Painter. Portraits, landscapes with figures, still-lifes (flowers).
Jules Pelletier was a pupil of Louis Henri de Rudder and Thomas Couture. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1848 to 1880. Pelletier was famous for his paintings of flowers, and of roses in particular.
Auction Records
Calais, 8 July 1990: Village by a River (oil on canvas, 25½ × 36¼ ins/65 × 92 cm) FRF 24,000
Calais, 7 July 1991: The Cellarman Monk (oil on panel, 9¾ × 7½ ins/25 × 19 cm) FRF 16,000
New York, 1 Nov 1995: Still-life with Flowers (oil on canvas, 24 × 30 ins/61 × 76.2 cm) USD 5,750
Chartres, 22 Oct 2000: Hunting Trophy. Basket of Flowers (oil on canvas, a pair, 36 × 26 ins/92 × 65 cm) FRF 33,500
Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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Jules Antoine Pelletier (1825–1887) Oil Painting
