ARTIST: Joseph Caraud (French, 1821 - 1905)
TITLE: The Performance
YEAR: 1876
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Three patches. Few small scattered inpaintings (biggest 3" x 2"). Few minor paint losses. Minor craquelure. Some damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 26 x 22 inches / 66 x 55 cm
FRAME SIZE: 36 x 32 inches / 91 x 81 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 124100
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BIOGRAPHY:
Early in his career Joseph Caraud was inspired, like many other artists, by Italy and Algeria, basing his early Salon entries on his experience in these countries. But as his career progressed he became more interested in anecdotal, genre scenes in which elegant women in their luxurious clothing with sumptuous patterning recalled the eighteenth-century style and rendering of details found in paintings by Fragonard, Greuze, and Watteau.His works, reminiscent of the eighteenth century themes and style, are in sharp contrast to the prevailing sense of Realism imbued in many works of this period in France which sought to document daily life in the country. These Realists artists based their compositions around a dark palette and did not shy away from depicting even the gloomiest scenes of Parisian existence.