Alcide Joseph Lorentz (1813-1889) Cuirassier Painting 1st Empire, Old Soldier Of The Emperor

Magnificent painting representing an old soldier of the Emperor. Our man is comfortably seated and seems to raise his glass in memory of an event or in memory of someone. Indeed he looks at a frame positioned on a chair, at the other end of the room. Many objects are negligently placed at his feet: ewer, books, cuirass, helmet with a crest decorated with his plume, saber etc... His pistol is hung near a death mask above his head, on the wall of the fund. In the background, a large Renaissance piece of furniture also serves as a display for a large number of heterogeneous objects. It is a remarkably treated work allowing many interpretations. Our painting is signed lower right Lorentz. It is sold with a sumptuous frame entirely gilded with gold leaf. Note two tiny lacks of paint without any influence on the visual. Alcide Joseph Lorentz (1813-1889) Painter, illustrator, lithographer, he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1841, 1847, 1848, 1950. mainly paintings representing scenes of military life under the First Empire. He will be a close friend of Georges Sand, whose portrait he will paint as well as the cover of his first book "Rose et Blanche" in 1931. He will also be friends with many personalities of the time such as Théodor Rousseau, the Nadar brothers, Théodore Burette, Bouchardy, Brot, Perrin etc... 1833: he published drawings to "the artist". 1838: he produces "spiritual" paintings for a decor in rue vivienne. 1840: he produced caricatures for a collection lithographed by Rigo frêres and published by Auguste. 1842: he collaborates with "la caricature" "le charivari", he will produce caricatures in particular of Georges Sand, Frantz Liszt, Alfredde Vigny etc... He will be part with Daumier, Trimollet and Verrier of the illustrators of fashionable comic collections, called "Physiologies". He will be the author of the launch poster and the vignettes of "the Emperor's story", a story told in a barn by an old soldier. He will compose several comic and lithographed albums for Aubert. 1847: he signs a successful album "polichinel, king of puppets and become a philosopher., thus charging Louis Philippe; 1848: he produces a piece entitled "the family of the worker" he is also registered with the society of dramatic authors and composers and appears in the directory of founding members. 1856: he produced a poster for his friend the photographer nadar. 1861-1862: he collaborated with "le petit journal pour rire"? 1865 to 1868 for the newspaper "la moon" 1869: the eclipse" 1871: "the world for laughs" 1889: he dies at his home, 4 passage of water in Paris in the 16th, he is buried in the cemetery of Batignolles.