Oil painting by famous accomplished French painter of genre scenes, costume paintings, and portraits of society ladies. He was well-admired during his lifetime and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon.
Our work is artist's preparatory sketch to his famous large work ”Young Lady with a Parrot”, sold by Sothebys, Paris on 21.06.2018 for 15 000 €.

The artist was exhibited: 

Paris Salon, Fine Arts Exhibition in Rouen.

Public Collections

University of Michigan Museum of Art, National Art Museum of Moldova, Museum of Fine Art in Nice.

Timeline: 

1824

Born in Bordeaux, France.

Studied under Abel de Pujol (1785-1861) in Paris.

Studied at the École des Beaux-arts under Léon Cogniet (1794-1880).

1846

Debuted at the Paris Salon where he exhibited regularly until 1887.

1862

Reviewed in Le Journal des livres : revue bibliographique.

“Mr. Eugène Accard, whose paintings have already been noticed at the Palais de l'Industrie, during the exhibition of 1861, is a young painter of recognized talent. The care with which the poses of his characters are studied, the simple elegance with which their rich costumes are draped, denote a precision of drawing and a certainty of brushwork which are the hallmark of the true artist, a worthy student of Abel de Pujol; to these qualities, which are the fruit of observation, conscientious study and serious work.

Mr. Accard adds another merit, rarer perhaps, because he is rather a gift of nature that the result that a painter can obtain through meditation and perseverance, we want to talk about colour. Mr. Accard was born a colorist. He knows how to find on his palette the freshest and warmest tones at the same time, without being garish and harmonising with great happiness and skill; its velvets, its satins are of a brilliance and a truth which produces a complete illusion to the eye; it would be fabric if it wasn't paint. The scene from Molière that Mr. Accard has just recalled on canvas, will be a charming ornament in the gallery of an amateur or in the boudoir of a little mistress.”

1864

Awarded a medal at an exhibition in Rouen.

1868

Reviewed in Les Salons, dessins autographes: Exposition des beaux-arts, Paris.

Literature: artist lexicons: by Thieme/Becker, by Prof.H.Fuchs and by Saur.

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on wood, original period gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed w 8 1/2" x h 10 3/4"(21,8 x 27,5 cm),  framed 13" x 15 1/3"( 33 x 39 cm).

Condition: in  good condition.