Alfred Plauzeau - Portrait Of A Child

Alfred PLAUZEAU Avanton-Paché (Vienna), 1875 - Hendaye, 1918 Oil on oil 61 x 38 cm (75.5 x 52.5 cm with frame) Signed lower right "A. Plauzeau" Artist from Poitou, Plauzeau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme from 1897 and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1900. He adopted two styles, an academic, faithful to his master Gerome on historical and allegorical topics and portraits, and an impressionist style for local subjects on the life of the people of Poitou. He had success in both genres, won prizes and medals but his career will be short because he died in 1917. Our painting is a very beautiful portrait in a style still very close to Gérôme with great precision of the drawing, a rendering remarkable shapes and bright and cheerful colors. In 1985, the Sainte-Croix de Poitiers museum devoted an important retrospective to this unjustly unknown painter.