Antonio De La Gandara, *closing Of The Trading Session At The Paris Stock Exchange*, Oil On Canvas-lined Board

Antonio de la Gandara (Paris 1861 – 1917 Paris)

Closing Time or the End of the Trading Session at the Place de la Bourse

Oil on canvas-backed cardboard, signed lower right “A de la Gandara” and inscribed on the reverse of the work.
“To Mr. and Mrs. Ratore. As a token of my deep sympathy. A de la Gandara”

Good condition

Dimensions:
Stretched canvas: 40.5 x 33 cm
With frame: 53 x 44.5 cm

In 1724, the Paris Stock Exchange became the official institution where commodities, currencies, and securities were all traded; the Paris Stock Exchange was granted stable regulations under the Empire and a building, completed in 1827, whose construction was entrusted by Napoleon to the architect Alexandre Théodore Brongniart.
Beginning in the mid-19th century, the Stock Exchange’s dominant role in France’s economic development, and particularly in the financing of industrialization, marked the triumph of the business bourgeoisie—composed of bankers, brokers, and stockbrokers—who, all drawn by a taste for speculation and the ease of getting rich, gathered at the Palais Brongniart.