ARTIST: Alexandre Marie Guillemin (French, 1817 - 1880)
NAME: The Art Tutor
YEAR: 1847
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Minor inpainting along edges. Very minor craquelure. Minor damages to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 16 x 12 inches / 40 x 30 cm
FRAME SIZE: 26 x 22 inches / 66 x 55 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
PROVENANCE: Prestige Art Galleries, Skokie, IL (has gallery label on verso)
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116728
WARRANTY: 7 days returns accepted if item doesn't match description

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BIOGRAPHY:
Alexandre Marie Guillemin was born in 1817 in Paris. He was a student of the prominent French painter Antoine Jean Gros. Guillemin was especially known as genre artist specializing in the themes from the lives of peasants and petit bourgeois from Brittany to Pyrenees, frequently captured in humorous
settings.
From 1840 to 1879 he regularly exhibited at the Parisian Salon.
In 1845 he received an exhibition medal, in 1869 he was awarded the Order of the Legion d'Honneur. Works of Alexandre Marie Guillemin can be viewed in museums worldwide such as the National Academy of Design, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal or the Hermitage, and Saint Petersburg.