Crepescule d’hiver
by Charles Guilloux

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  • Country of origin: France

  • Medium: Oil on canvas

  • Signed: Signed & dated 1903 lower right / titled and dated on stretcher verso

  • Dated: 1903

  • Condition: Relined c. 1960 - Some small areas of retouching visible under UV inspection

  • Size: 13.00" x 18.00" (33.0cm x 45.7cm)

  • Framed Size: 20.00" x 25.00" (50.8cm x 63.5cm)

  • Provenance: Private french collection

Artwork Biography

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French, 19th – 20th century, male.

 

Born 1866, in Paris; died 1946, in Lormes.

 

Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, lithographer. Landscapes, waterscapes, urban landscapes.

Charles Guilloux worked at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and was a self-taught artist. He exhibited his works from 1892. He exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1905, and at the Salon des Indépendants from 1911 to 1914.

 

Museum and Gallery Holdings

 

Cleveland (MA): The Deluge (1893, colour lithograph); Valley of the Strangala, near Quimper (1896, watercolour and coloured chalk over black chalk)

Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Twilight (1892, oil on canvas); Banks of the Seine in Twilight (1894, oil on canvas)