Victor Chavet - 1822 - 1906 - Un Barbier étuviste, Oil On Canvas, Late 19th Century.

Thescene depicts the shop of a Renaissance barber (late15th, early 16th century), where a man has just bled an old man.old man. His worried wife is at his bedside, two childrena young barber looks on while shaving his customer, two mysterioustwo mysterious men in the shadows chat.The light is placed on the center and right side of theof this genre scene, very much in vogue at the end of the 19th century.19th century.

The format of this painting is quiteis unusual for Victor Chavet, a painter who likes to work in smallThis is a prestigious work,presented at the 1894 Salon des Artistes Français as an "Hors Concours".Hors Concours. The original frame still bears its cartouche: "Victor CHAVET - Hors Concours - Un Barbier Étuviste - XVème"

Notice from the Salon booklet

• Artist : Victor-Joseph Chavet

• Status : Hors concours

• Work : A student barber

• Number : 320

• Exhibition : Salon de Paris (Société des Artistes Français), 1894

Dimensions -

Out of frame: 62 x 75 cm Frame: 85 x 96 cm

Condition -
The canvas has been previously lined. There is a labelleft with a code ending in the number 4, as well as a label from
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