British Impressionists
Hover over the painting to magnify (there may be an initial delay while the magnified image is loaded)Albert de Belleroche (1864-1944):
Le Secretaire Louis XVI, circa 1890
Framed (ref: 2658)
Oil on canvas
18.3 x 15.2 in. (46.5 x 38.5 cm)See all works by Albert de Belleroche oil interiors still lifes 1.Belleroche 1.PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
Provenance: with Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, London, Ruth Wittman
Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.20.
The mise-en-scène in this studio scene shows a variety of the artist’s favourite props, with various paintings in different stages of completion, including a piece of unstretched canvas, in the background. Of Belleroche’s still lives Frank Brangwyn commented: "... he had carried the tradition of Chardin a step further and it is not surprising that Degas thought so highly of these works."
Exhibited Arthur Tooth & Sons LTD, Albert de Belleroche Early Paintings, January 13th . February 5th 1955, Number 6
In a Louis IV gilded frame.
"His
still-life pictures - with the glimmer of light on silver and other
objects, the shadows full of rich and reflected tones - has bough a new
note into this kind of painting. One might say that he had carried the
tradition of Chardin a step further, giving immediacy to his effects of
light and colour, crystallizing the emotion of a particular moment. In
this work one feels that, with his lively and nervous handling of paint,
he makes the objects before him live in the moving light that plays on
them, and it is not surprising that Degas though so highly of these
works." Frank Brangwyn, Foreword to Albert de Belleroche by Julian A Millest, Apollo, 1935, XXI 124 April
