Painting, Alexandre François Bonnardel, Still Life With Apples, Pears, And Grapes

Painting, oil on wood panel, depicting a still life with apples, pears, and grapes in a clay fruit bowl.
Signed lower right: “A Bonnardel.” Early 20th century
In its original gilded stuccoed wooden frame.

Dimensions:
With frame: 50 x 41
Without frame: 41 x 33

Alexandre François Alexandre Bonnardel (1867–1942)
Painter of genre scenes, nudes, portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and flowers.
He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1891 and exhibited at the Salon de Lyon that same year.
He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Poncet, whose teaching style—emphasizing meticulous drawing simply enhanced by color—he would long uphold.
He won his first medal in 1893 and again in 1899.
Beginning in 1900, he became a professor of life drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Remaining faithful to his teacher, he emphasized precision in drawing and restraint in execution.
He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904 and received an honorable mention in 1909.
He finally won a gold medal in 1926 at the Lyon Salon.
He remained secretary of the Lyon Society of Fine Arts until 1926.