Ernst Ange Duez (attributed To) - Under The Lamp

Ernest Ange Duez, Paris, 1843 – Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1896, Under the Lamp, Oil on canvas, 56 x 45 cm (68 x 57.5 cm with frame), Signed lower right "E. Duez", Very good condition, Beautiful 19th-century giltwood frame, On display at the gallery. A painter trained in academia and a salon artist, Ernest Ange Duez was also a close friend of Édouard Manet. His mastery of drawing does not overshadow his profound understanding of materials. This painting is a good example of this. It can be compared to his painting in the Musée d'Orsay, "Around the Lamp," another painting on the same theme where the figures—not objects as here—revolve around the lamp. In this theme of "painting under the lamp," which was fashionable at the end of the 19th century with the arrival of electricity, the lamp is a true character that participates in the representation of the intimacy and private life of people of that time.