{"product_id":"henry-pierre-picou-gallerie-dapollon","title":"Henry-Pierre Picou - Gallerie d'Apollon","description":"\u003cp\u003e The painting can be defined as a genre scene, that is, the representation\u003cbr\u003e\n of an episode of daily life which, apparently, has no element\u003cbr\u003e\n significant. These types of domestic subjects were long considered\u003cbr\u003e\n as minor and began to spread, in Western art, only starting from\u003cbr\u003e\n from the 17th century. Only with the development of the 19th century realistic currents\u003cbr\u003e \nsubjects of everyday life were considered of the same importance as\u003cbr\u003e\n historical or religious ones. Henry-Pierre Picou is one of the greatest exponents\u003cbr\u003e\n French academic painting of the nineteenth century, specialized precisely in\u003cbr\u003e\n representation of historical-mythological scenes. In the work in question,\u003cbr\u003e\n Instead, the artist is inspired by the genre scene set in a museum or in a\u003cbr\u003e\n gallery. A very popular subject starting in the eighteenth century, it combines narrative taste with an accurate description of the environment, almost transforming the painting\u003cbr\u003e\n in a photographic testimony of the works contained in the gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e The work has been attributed to Henry-Pierre Picou, who is indeed a\u003cbr\u003e\n perfect interpreter of the genre scene in all its codified rules.\u003cbr\u003e\n The work, in fact, wonderfully illustrates its era with an extraordinary\u003cbr\u003e\n power of representation. Picou's desire is to capture on the canvas\u003cbr\u003e\n the symbolic image of an era, which is expressed already starting from the idea of\u003cbr\u003e \ncomposition in which the subject is coherently united with the environment\u003cbr\u003e\n reference. The union between subject and environment is inseparable and also strengthened\u003cbr\u003e\n from the structure of the work, built according to a rigorous perspective (very\u003cbr\u003e\n The diagonal escape of the gallery is scenographic). It goes without saying that, in a painting\u003cbr\u003e\n in this area, descriptive clarity must be a characteristic\u003cbr\u003e\n essential of pictorial art. In fact, Picou's works are characterised by a\u003cbr\u003e\n perfect naturalistic rendering, impeccable in the description of every single piece of data\u003cbr\u003e\n objective. A style that can be defined as academic, illustrious\u003cbr\u003e\n testimony of that pompier painting which, at the end of the nineteenth century in France,\u003cbr\u003e\n proud of its own tradition, it opposed the Impressionist innovations.\u003cbr\u003e\n These are all characteristics that we find expressed in the painting in\u003cbr\u003e\n object. Which is also characterised by a great softness of\u003cbr\u003e\n touch, through which the artist manages to obtain a total fusion of the\u003cbr\u003e \nobjects in the atmospheric, coherent and luminous space of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e The work has been attributed to Henri-Pierre Picou (Nantes, 1824 – 1895). His\u003cbr\u003e\n work began with portraits and classical historical subjects, but later moved on to themes\u003cbr\u003e\n allegorical and mythological. He was an academic painter and one of the founders of the school\u003cbr\u003e\n Neo-Greek. His artistic debut took place at the Salon in 1847. The year\u003cbr\u003e\n he later received a second class medal for his work,\u003cbr\u003e\n Cléopâtre and Antoine on the Cydnus. Picou maintained a large laboratory in\u003cbr\u003e\n Paris on the Boulevard de Magenta, which offered him space to work on his\u003cbr\u003e\n large frescoes. His popularity continued to grow and he won the Second Prix\u003cbr\u003e\n de Rome in 1853 for his painting, Jésus chassant les vendeurs du Temple\u003cbr\u003e\n (The usurers expelled from the temple), and another second class medal for the\u003cbr\u003e\n his painting at the Salon in 1857. From his debut in 1847, he was a regular\u003cbr\u003e\n frequenter of the Salon, exhibiting almost every year until his last\u003cbr\u003e \nexhibition in 1893. He was called the most fashionable painter towards the end of the\u003cbr\u003e\n Second French Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bianchi Alessandro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56218419364226,"sku":"ABIA001","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/7065\/3058\/files\/FRONTE-scaled.jpg?v=1768473285","url":"https:\/\/cjfh11-ee.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/henry-pierre-picou-gallerie-dapollon","provider":"Venderequadri","version":"1.0","type":"link"}