Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right and titled verso
Size: 22.00" x 18.00" (55.9cm x 45.7cm)
Framed Size: 29.00" x 25.00" (73.7cm x 63.5cm)
Dated: c. 1920
Additional information
Condition: Very good original condition
Provenance: Private french collection
Literature: A superb example of the work of the American impressionist painter Jules Eugene Pages. This view was painted from the rooftops of Montmartre and overlooks the city of Paris on Bastille Day. Fireworks light up the sky whilst the light of the streets illuminates the buildings.
Jules Eugène Pagès was born in San Francisco and died in Paris. He was a pupil in Paris of Constant, Lefebvre and Robert-Fleury, was appointed as a professor at the Académie Julian in 1902. He was awarded an honourable mention in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1895, a third-class medal in 1899, and a second-class medal in 1905. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1910. He exhibited widely in the United States especially in his hometown of San Francisco and often painted there.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Paris (MAM)
San Francisco (California Palace of the Legion of Honor): Gossip Brittany (etching and aquatint)
San Francisco (De Young Mus.): Versailles (oil on canvas)
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