Dans la plaine de Gennevilliers
by Alexandre Louis Jacob
£7,950.00
GBP Pound SterlingCountry of origin: France
Medium: Oil on panel
Signed: Signed lower right and titled verso
Dated: c. 1950
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 13.00" x 16.00" (33.0cm x 40.6cm)
Framed size: 20.00" x 23.00" (50.8cm x 58.4cm)
Provenance: Private french collection
Further information: This very interesting work is titled verso with the added word "demenagement" - meaning to move house. The work pictures figures and a horse and cart heading away from flooded buildings in the plain at Gennevilliers on the Seine in the north of Paris. Due to its very flat nature the plain was susceptible to flooding.
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Artist biography
View full artist profileJacob was a pupil of Eugène Claude. He was noted for his effects evoking the light of dawn and dusk. From 1899, he exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he became a member in 1902. He received an honourable mention in 1908, a gold medal hors concours in 1914 and a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale in 1937. He exhibited there until 1950. He also showed at the Salon d'Hiver, the Salon des Aquarellistes, as well as in private galleries.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Fougères
Paris (MAM)
St-Quentin
Troyes (Mus. d'Art, d'Archéologie et de Sciences Naturelles)
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c. 1940
Oil on panel
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Les moutons de la ferme – Asnieres
by Alexandre Louis Jacob - Sold
1920
Oil on canvas
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Eclaircie Sur Le Marais – Environs D’Amiens
by Alexandre Louis Jacob - Sold
c. 1930
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L’Orne aux environs de Clécy, Normandie
by Alexandre Louis Jacob - Sold
