ARTIST: Jean Pierre Haag (French, 1842 - 1921)
NAME: Child at the Table
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Very good. Some inpainting along edges. Wear to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 9 x 6 1/2 inches / 22 x 17 cm
FRAME SIZE: 11 x 9 inches / 27 x 22 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
NAME VARIANTS: Jean Paul Haag
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Son of Jean-Pierre Haag, a mechanic, and his wife Genevieve Maloizel living in Elbeuf, Normandy.He joined the Ecouen Painters Colony on 1870 and became a student of Pierre Edouard Frere and Leon Dansaert. He married Ernestine Juliette Confais and they had several children including painter Jean Gaston Haag.He exhibited in Paris in 1870 for the first time, showing his painting titled "Interieur de forge a Villiers-le-Bel".Like most of the artists of Ecouen, he painted the country lifestyle.Interior genre and scenes of domestic activity were subjects that were explored by a number of 19th century artists throughout Europe and in the United States. The new middle class had a voracious appetite for these humorous and often sentimental scenes featuring children at play.The Artist would have received his training in Paris during the 1860s and made his debut at the Paris Salon in the exhibition of 1870. Haag favored scenes of everyday life and often center on one or two figures in an interior, and display a quality and attention to detail that is only found in the works of the more successful artists of the period. Like many of his contemporaries, he traveled throughout the countryside in search of inspiration and we know that he spend time in the Normandy area. At the Salon exhibition of 1879 he exhibited Les Boules de neige and Le petit fileur.