Nicolas Stairs - Interior Of Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari In Venice

Nicolas Félix ESCALIER Paris, 1843 - Paris, 1920 Watercolor Workshop stamp lower left 26 x 36 cm (38.5 x 51.5 cm with the frame) 19th century pitch pine frame Nicolas Félix Escalier studied painting with Louis Jules André and Élie Delaunay . He was admitted to the second attempt at the Rome Competition in 1863. Nicolas Escalier was registered in 1868 as an architect, painter and decorator. In 1871 he traveled to Italy and devoted himself to painting from 1873. Nicolas Escalier created a number of decorations for luxurious residences (castles of Créville, Count Witzhum in Baden-Baden, Germany, with painted decoration, around 1889, Fitz -James in Clermont (Oise) for the banker Jacques Stern in 1888) and hotels in Paris (by Sarah Bernhardt in 1876 and 1882, by the painter Roger Jourdain, for the painter Guillaume Dubufe, the future Henner museum in 1873, for Hermann de Clermont in 1879-81...). He also created decorations for the Cercle de l'Union Artistique rue Boissy d'Anglas in 1889 and as a painter and decorator the Fabry hotel, La Bonne Aventure, the Andante, the Opera buffet in 1887 under the direction of Charles Garnier as well as the Cercle Boissy d’Anglas. Nicolas Escalier exhibited at the Salon of French Artists, notably in 1873, Interior of San Marco, in Venice (a watercolor) and Interior of San Miniato, in Florence (watercolor). Our watercolor is a view of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, probably made around 1873 also after the artist's trip to Italy. This watercolor bears the stamp of Nicolas Escalier's workshop.