Paul Emile Antony Morlon - Oil On Canvas - Portrait - 19th-20th Century - Man With A Cap -

OIL ON CANVAS SIGNED "A. MORLON" FOR PAUL EMILE ANTONY MORLON (1834-1913) REPRESENTING THE PORTRAIT OF A MAN FROM THE END OF THE LAST CENTURY - SOME WEAR (LACK OF PIGMENT) SHOULD BE NOTED. CANVAS REQUIRES SLIGHTLY TO BE RETIGHTENED - ORIGINAL CANVAS AND IN ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION - FRAME SIZE 45 X 42 CMMorlon began at the Salon with lively scenes, set on the banks of the Seine or the Marne, and painted rowing enthusiasts, either at Bougival or Asnières, depicting, in a lively style, the boatman singing, or drinking freshly under the foliage[2]. Having then left this first vision of art to become a marine painter, he won an honorable mention with his painting: The Vow of the Cabin Boy, in 1883[2]. Two years later, he achieved a new success with the painting Saved!: the lifeboat returns to port in the channel, the boat leaps on the crest of the waves, steered by the sailors bringing back the survivors they have saved; in the distance the boiling sea sweeps with its deadly waves the quays and the jetty[2]. This work, which was a great success, won a third medal[2]. Passionate about man's struggle against the storm, he exhibited at the Salon of 1898 and then at the Universal Exhibition: Victims of Duty, where the religious side of the sailor's life is rendered with poetry[2]. This work was acquired by the City of Paris[2]. At the Salon of 1893, he exhibited the Curses of the Aïeule, where an old grandmother drags her terrified grandson, and shakes her fist at the great man-eater; The Launching of the Lifeboat and, in 1887, Christ the Saviour, which earned him a second medal, a painting acquired by the State for the Le Havre Museum[2]. He also painted several genre paintings: Louis XIV and Mlle de La Vallière, Henri de Navarre and La Belle Fosseuse; Marie-Antoinette at Trianon; scenes from The Misanthrope and The Doctor in Spite of Himself, etc.[2]. He was appointed vice-president of the Société libre des Artistes français and out of competition in 1887[2].