Alfred van Muyden (1818-1898)

细节

Alfred van Muyden (1818-1898)

Study for La prise de tabac

signed with initials 'A v M'; oil on paper laid down on card
16¾ x 11¾in. (42.5 x 29.8cm.)
Painted in 1865

来源

The artist's brother-in-law, Étienne Duval, and thence by descent to the present owner

展览

Geneva, Exposition d'Oeuvres d'Alfred van Muyden a l'Athénée, 1896, no. 47

拍品专文

Dr. Lucien Boissonnas, in a letter dated April 1995, writes 'A beautiful study for the young girl in the painting now at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva (inv. no. 1896-2) curiously depicting a friar standing in front of two kneeling women offering them snuff-tobacco (studies for the other protagonists of the painting were also shown in the 1896 exhibition).'

Muyden was a pupil of Kaulbach in Munich. He met Etienne Duval in Rome and married his sister.

We are grateful to Dr. Lucien Boissonnas for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.