Young Girl With A Blue Tablecloth, Hyppolite Michaud (1823 - 1886)

Trained at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown of Beaune, Hyppolite Michaud left for Paris to complete his training with the painter Léon Cogniet (1794 – 1880). In 1846, at the age of 23, he exhibited at the Salon; the French state bought a canvas from him at the Paris Painting Salon of 1865. Favoring painting from nature, he adhered to the naturalist movement, whose fame was brought by Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert. In the calm of a room, a young seamstress, seated three-quarter length, receives the light from outside; she redoes the hem of a blue tablecloth. While the face of the young girl receives this soft light, the satin blue tablecloth is adorned with rays of light. This chiaroscuro work highlights a simple act of everyday life. His works are preserved in the museums of Beaune, the Fine Arts of Dijon and the Rijskmuseum of Amsterdam. Original frame and canvas. Dimensions with frame: 137 cm x 109 cm Dimensions without frame: 114 cm x 87 cm