Tag: Victor Gabriel Gilbert
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris,Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s A flower seller on les grands boulevards, with footnotes, Part 86
Estimate at 60,000 – 80,000 USD in June 2023 Filled with concert venues, theatres, cafés and restaurants, the Grands Boulevards area has long been popular with Parisians as a place of enjoyment and relaxation. There are many treasures to be uncovered: grand architecture, places steeped in history, covered passages that have retained their old-world charm,…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Marché aux fleurs, with footnotes, Part 87
Sold for 44,100 USD in January 2023 Victor Gilbert was celebrated as the foremost painter of Parisian marchés during the final decades of the 19th century, when daily markets proliferated throughout the French capital to satisfy the growing upper and middle classes. Located on Place Louis Lépine between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Sainte-Chapelle chapel, the flower…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Le pavillon de la Marée aux Halles-Centrales de Paris, with footnotes, Part 82
The building, which was an answer to Emperor Napoléon’s III (1808-18773) sanitary demands and reforms, fascinated the first photographers. At each of the 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881 Salons, Gilbert exhibited at least one painting depicting the Halles of Paris. Gilbert’s composition depicting the fish pavilion, which was at the time in the north of the market, at…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, VICTOR GABRIEL GILBERT’S At the Flower Market, with footnotes, Part 77
At the Flower Market, in contrast to many of Gilbert’s compositions, is set in one of the smaller flower stalls in the French capital. In the center of the composition, an elegant young lady deliberates over her choices for the day, testing the fragrance of pink roses, watched and perhaps encouraged by the stall’s proprietor.…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Part 77
On a paved road, playing on the two dogs, a coachman with light straw hat and blue jacket tries to carry out his horse to horse-drawn carriage. He will be watched by numerous passers-by who are facing retail shops. In the background, the view is released to other buildings in the city and other figures.…
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18 Works, Today, February 13th. is artist Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #044
Victor Gabriel Gilbert was a French painter of genre scenes. He received his formal training from L. Em. Adan, Levasseur and Ch. Busson. In 1873 he had his debut at the Paris Salon and continued to be a faithful exhibitor at the Salon des Artist Francais where he obtained a silver medal in 1889, received…
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Victor-Gabriel Gilbert, THE FLOWER VENDOR 01 Painting, Streets of Pari, Part 65 – With Footnotes
The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine. It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the “Palais des Arts” under the First French Empire); between 1802 and 1804, under the reign…
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert, (1847–1933), A Parisian Flower Market 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 38 – With Footnotes
Victor Gabriel Gilbert, (1847–1933) A Parisian Flower Market Oil on canvas 137.5 x 46.3 cm Private collection Victor Gabriel Gilbert born in Paris the 13 February 1847 and died in the 21 July 1933. He was a French painter. He is buried in Montmartre cemetery in Paris. In 1860 he apprenticed to a painter and…
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