Marcellin Desboutin Portrait Of A Boy, Oil On Canvas, 19th Century

Marcellin Desboutin (1823-1902)

Fine Portrait of a Boy

Oil on canvas, signed lower right M Desboutin

Good condition, old tear restored

Dimensions:
Canvas: 41 x 27 cm
Framed: 51 x 38 cm

Marcellin Desboutin was born in Cérilly (Allier) on August 26, 1823. A former student of Thomas Couture, he devoted much of his work to Italy and was also recognized as a writer and poet. In the field of creative techniques, he was one of the promoters of drypoint engraving and earned a well-deserved reputation by creating portraits of his most famous contemporaries. He received a third-class medal at the Salon of 1879 and a silver medal at the Salon of 1889. Desboutin was also a central figure in the Impressionist circle. A friend of Manet and Degas, he participated in the group's second exhibition in 1876. Immortalized by Degas in L'Absinthe ou Dans un Café (1875), exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay, he himself embodies the intersection between tradition and modernity.