Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed with cachet lower right and again verso
Dated: 1920
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 18.00" x 22.00" (45.7cm x 55.9cm)
Framed Size: 26.00" x 30.00" (66.0cm x 76.2cm)
Provenance: Galerie de l'Institut - Centenary Exhibition of Hippolyte Petitjean (1955 ) - original labels verso
1942
Oil on canvas
£4,950.00
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Nature morte au pot à pipe
by Jean Albert Pougny
c. 1930
Oil on canvas
£3,750.00
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Nature Morte
by Jean Albert Pougny
1920
Oil on board
£2,950.00
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Nature Morte
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
c. 1975
Oil on canvas
£8,950.00
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Jeune bretonne dans l’atelier Dyf – Arzon
by Marcel Dyf
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£4,250.00
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Still Life
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
1929
Oil on canvas
£6,850.00
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Vase De Fleurs
by Paul Elie Gernez
1900
Oil on canvas
£5,950.00
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Fleurs a l’eventail
by Marie Duhem
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£5,350.00
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Pivoines chair contre la glace
by Marie Duhem
c. 1920
Oil on canvas
£6,450.00
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Vase de Fleurs
by Georges D'Espagnat
1920
Oil on canvas
£32,500.00
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Delphiniums in the mirror
by Louis Valtat
c. 1930
Oil on canvas
£9,500.00
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Bouquet de tulipes et de pivoines
by Leon Detroy
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
£9,950.00
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Fleurs et livre sur une table
by Georges D'Espagnat
Hippolyte Petitjean started his training in Mâcon and then became a student at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he worked in Cabanel's studio. By selling two Seurat paintings that he owned for 25,000 gold francs, he was able to build an immense studio opposite the Parc Montsouris.
Petitjean painted some mythological subjects, but mainly executed figured landscapes, many of which were views of Paris. He made preparatory studies in the open air, but usually painted the final and highly detailed pictures slowly in the studio. He was an admirer of Puvis de Chavannes and a close friend of Seurat. The careful detail of his compositions connects him to the Symbolists, though he was equally committed to the Divisionists' technique, which he practised faithfully from 1886 until his death. His output consists of about 350 pictures and many drawings, watercolours and gouaches.
Petitjean exhibited in Stockholm in 1887, in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants from 1891, in Brussels in 1893 and 1898, in Berlin in 1898, in Weimar in 1903 and in Wiesbaden in 1921. Posthumously, he was represented in the exhibition Burgundian Landscapes, from Corot to Laronze ( Paysages de Bourgogne, de Corot à Laronze) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, in 2001.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Mâcon (Mus. des Ursulines): Landscape in Donzy-le-Pertuis (c. 1885, oil on canvas)
Paris (Louvre): Landscape with a Hill (c. 1890, watercolour)
Paris (MNAM-CCI): The Artist's Wife (1892)