Joseph Beaume 1796-1885 Reading The Watercolor Letter

Joseph Beaume 1796-1885
Reading the letter Watercolor and gouache
Signed lower right
Joseph Beaume was trained at the school of Baron Gros and started at the Salon of 1819. Beaume was not long in realizing the hopes that his debut had given. ; the following paintings, which he sent to the Salon of 1827, earned him a 1st class medal: Hunting stop, the King drinks (engraved), Rustic interior. From the way in which the artist treated familiar subjects, one believed to see in him a continuator of Greuzo, of that honest and sentimental painter who delighted Diderot.