antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier
antique portrait painting turkish soldier

Janissary

Antique oil painting from France: French School of the XIXth Oil on canvas signed on the back by Victor Pierre Ménard (1857-1938).

The canvas has no abundance of material, but is rather smooth with consistent, balanced brush strokes. The scene represents a Turkish soldier on a stool. The light is powerful and very well nuanced against the turquoise blue outfit.

About the artist: Victor Pierre Ménard (1857-1938) was born in Nantes in 1857. He trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris with renowned professors such as Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1834-1912) and Henri-Lucien Doucet (1856-1895). He lived in Paris in the second district where he met and married Charlotte Morel, one of the first women to be admitted to mixed classes of the Beaux-Arts.

Victor Pierre Ménard regularly exhibited his Breton landscapes, portraits and genre scenes at the Salon of French artists from 1894, where he obtained a mention in 1923. He also exhibited at the Salon d'Hiver between 1923 and 1937. He died in Paris in 1938.

 

  • Overall size: 14.1" x 10.2" / 36cm x 26cm.
  • Provenance: France. 
  • Signed: Yes (on the back), Victor Pierre Ménard (1857-1938).
  • Date: XIXth century.
  • Condition: The canvas is in good condition for its age with a few small gaps in particular on the edges and a couple of creases on the canvas that are light and barely noticeable.
  • Materials: Oil on stretched canvas.
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