Gothic Style - Penguilly Octave -tavern Scene With 2 Elderly Figures - 1860

Superb tavern scene in the style of the 17th century, presenting 2 old men in costumes. One has obviously already abused alcohol and is faining sleep in his chair but may be drawing a knife from his boot. The other, from the front, throws him an angry look. Between them, a table covered with pewter pots, glasses filled with beer and a copper ewer. Dated lower left 1860  with the Monogram O. P.y. for Octave Penguilly l'Haridon.
On the back of the painting, an inscription engraved on the panel "Tachet breveté à Paris", an illegible paper label and the number 113 painted in stencil. The panel is not wood but a type of fiber product patented in 1846 by Tachet. It has held up very well.
The whole, in an important frame typical of the time, which presents a decoration of laurel leaves.
Penguilly was a known and recognized painter in his time. First an artillery officer, he appeared at the Salon from 1835 to 1870. Baudelaire said of his works: “a door open to infinity, solitude and the poetic spirit”.
Many museums exhibit his works in Paris (Petit Palais and Musée d'Orsay) and in the provinces (Arras, Lille, Nancy, Nantes, La Rochelle, etc.). Penguilly's works have been the subject of numerous public sales, from 1868 to the present day.
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