" Flowers "

Lucien Victor GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA

(1871- 1950 )

Painter of portraits, still lifes, Flowers

He was a pupil of Cormon at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He exhibited, in Paris, at the Salon des Artistes Français. He later became a member of the Committee, and naturally an exhibitor, in Paris, of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Officier de la Légion d'honneur in 1914.

Making bare accuracy his sole aesthetic concern, he made a brilliant career as a society portraitist. It was in this capacity that his works became widespread. He executed portraits of the Duc de Massa, Henri Farman, the Duchesse d'Uzes, the Duchesse de Brissac, to name but a few.

MUSEUMS: MULHOUSE: La femme au voile, aquar. - Jeune prin-cesse, aquar. -
PARIS (Mus. d'Art Mod.) : Portrait de femme.

Huile sur toile signed lower left in very good condition.
. ( the frame is in used condition on the right side)

Size : 75 x 124 cm
with frame : 92 x 141 cm