ARTIST: Leon Emile Caille (French, 1836 - 1907)
NAME: Interior Scene
YEAR: 1890
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Some damages to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 35 inches / 60 x 88 cm
FRAME SIZE: 32 x 43 inches / 80 x 108 cm
SIGNATURE: Lower left
SIMILAR ARTISTS: Henry Malfroy- Savigny, Henri-Joseph Harpignies, Eugene Verboeckhoven, Alfred De Breanski Sr, Eugene Galien-Laloue, Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville, William Shayer I, Jules Dupre, Narcisse-Virgil Diaz de la Pena, Eugenio Edouardo Zampighi
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 115586
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Leon Emile Caille (French, 1836 - 1907)
Leon Caille was well known for his small, simple works of peasant life and the strength of their appeal to human nature. His interiors glow with the freshness and innocence of happy childhood and domestic life as they capture and characterize the intimacy and affection of the scene.
Born in Merville, France, he was initially a student in Aire-sur-la-Lys of Henri Magnard, a painter and decorator. He spent two years in the academic school of Lille, France, under Souchon and Colas before being admitted, in 1856, to the prestigious Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts in Paris. There his instructors were Leon Cogniet, a painter of historical subjects who was also an Officer in the Legion of Honor, and Edmond Castan, a genre specialist. Caille began exhibiting at the annual Paris Salon in 1861, receiving medals in 1879 and 1882.
Intimate friends with Puvis de Chavannes and Carolus Duran, Caille joined them in agitation against the academic Salon system. This resulted, in 1890, in the establishment of a powerful rival, the Society of French Artists.