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François Louis Lanfant De Metz

François Louis Lanfant De Metz (1814-1892)

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Oil on table.
Framed
Signed low left
9 inches (h) x 7 inches (w) tabe Provenance: Baronesa de Monse . Paris Catalog of Bazar Colon, Montevideo, nro 16 (cover and inside) BIO: Painter of history and genre, he was born in 1814 in Sierck-les-Bains (57). He died at Le Havre in 1892. F.L. Lanfant called himself Metz, a town better known than Sierk-les-Bains, and was happy to follow his name with this indication of origin. He had a rather eventful life. Arrived in Paris at the age of 15, he first drew original compositions for wallpaper dealers. Then he was admitted to the studio of Ary Scheiffer, painter of history, genre and portraits. In 1842 he was engaged as a draftsman by the Swiss naturalist Agassiz and accompanied him to Switzerland and Italy. Quickly put off by a very regular existence, he left Naples on foot and engaged in a troupe of traveling comedians, realizing a dream of youth. He left rather quickly this troop since in 1843, one finds a painter in Paris. From 1843 to 1866, he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon, among others: Romulus attacks and beats the Sabines, A flower girl under the Regency and the Fiancée of the village who won a Gold Medal in 1847.In 1853, he exhibited at the Salon La Visite at the junk shop, considered one of his best works. The painter eventually acquired a certain notoriety. He had a studio in Paris, Boulevard des Italiens, and trained a certain number of pupils. 1868 was a turning point in his life as an artist: during a trip to Trouville with Courbet, he found former comedians friends and met the musician Louis Tessier who became his friend. He decided not to return to Paris. He settled in Le Havre and completely changed his way of painting. Abandoning the history painting, he will only paint small tablotins, staging carefree and playful childhood: toddler games, noisy school trips, pitched battles, pranks, forbidden games (the good wine, the denisor), parodies of the attitudes, gestures and passions of adults. Lithography popularized some of his works; Eugène Jouy and Goupil edited them in color, Barry, Fuhr and Lemoine transposed them in lithographic pencil. In these innumerable childish scenes, Lanfant's imagination was overflowing; he knew how to avoid any repetition, and always add a tender note which makes his little actors so charming

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