Jules Alexandre Grün 1868-1938 Man In A Boater Oil On Panel

Jules Alexandre Grün 1868-1938
Man with a Boater
Oil on panel Signed lower right
Framed dimensions: 39 x 31 cm
Painter's sketch related to his large painting "A Friday at the Salon of French Artists" kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen

The high point of Grün's painted work is the commission received in 1909 from the Under-Secretary of State for Fine Arts, Étienne Dujardin-Beaumetz, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Salon of French Artists in 1911. The audacity of the broad composition and the virtuosity of the brushwork in the painting A Friday at the Salon of French Artists restore much more than the vanity of a social opening evening reputed to launch the season of spring evenings and offer the opportunity to show off one's outfits to the page. One hundred and four personalities of the time are recognizable there, including the painters Henri Harpignies, Fernand Cormon, Léon Bonnat and Charles Léandre; a painter: Clémentine-Hélène Dufau; the architect Victor Laloux; the singer Yvette Guilbert; the composer Gabriel Fauré; the caricaturist Sem;