In The Salon – Evening
by Victor Lecomte

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  • Country of origin: France

  • Medium: Oil on panel

  • Signed: Signed lower left

  • Dated: c. 1890

  • Size: 22.00" x 15.00" (55.9cm x 38.1cm)

Artwork Biography

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Victor Lecomte trained with Achille Gilbert. His genre scenes, such as Reading in the Evening, show a strongly contrasted chiaroscuro. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris (1876 to 1914). He was awarded an honourable mention (1892), a third-class medal in (1897), a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900) and a second-class medal (1905).

Museum and Gallery Holdings

 

La Varenne-St-Hilaire (Mus. de St-Maur-Villa Médicis)