Charles Désiré Hue: Gallant Scene

Charles Désiré Hue: Gallant scene. Beautiful signed tile on canvas. Beautiful gilt leaf frame: guilloches, laurels, lictor fasces, palmettes, wrapped wire, frets and scrolls. Frame: height 61 cm, width 51 cm. View: height 37 cm, width 27 cm. Charles-Désiré Hue (1825-1899) entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he became a pupil of Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and Carraud. Best known for his lithographs, an art he experimented with Eugène Prosper Leroux, he exhibited his first canvas, Les Exilés de Tibère, at the Salon of 1857. He obtained an honorable mention at the Salon of 1883. Specialized in genre scenes whose action often takes place in the 18th century, we also know of him Le Visiteur (1867, location unknown) or Un salon du palais de Fontainebleau (location unknown). Possible delivery. https://www.antiquites-saintjean.fr