"the Beautiful Andalouse", Paul Saint-jean (1842-1875)

Portrait of a beautiful smoking Andalusian, a dish of pomegranates on an Ottoman pedestal table in the foreground, a vase filled with camellia flowers in the third plan. Painter of genre and portraits, student of his father himself a painter of flowers and fruits, he began at the Salon of 1866. Museums: Rouen "Reading", Utrecht "Flowers", Gray "the brunette with the white cap". G. SCHURR says of him: "Paul SAINT-JEAN shows in his portraits and his small genre scenes, the nimble line, the light and spiritual grace which the great amateurs of the 18th century appreciated in their painter chroniclers." (the little masters of painting, T 2, p.84) Bénézit, T 9, p.235 138x118 with a very beautiful frame with canals.