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Lot Essay
It has been suggested that the present lot is a design for a menu for Maxim's restaurant in Paris, where the artist is known to have drawn the illustration Sur l'herbe for the cover of the wine list of Côtes du Rhône.
Reminiscent of the fêtes galantes of the 18th century, the composition of this drawing is similar to that of a circular painting by Devambez, also entitled Sur l’herbe, exhibited at the Salon of 1900.
A painter and illustrator of considerable talent, André Devambez studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. Devambez had established a modest critical and commercial reputation, admired for the originality of his compositions, as well as for the charming and often whimsical subject matter of his paintings and drawings. When the artist was in his thirties, he began to devote more time to illustration, contributing drawings to several newspapers and magazines, and designing menus, invitations, programmes and advertisements. Devambez used a classical style, strewn with wit and humour to depict the world around him; an aesthetic that was very popular with publications, where his work often created an ideal marriage between text and image.
Reminiscent of the fêtes galantes of the 18th century, the composition of this drawing is similar to that of a circular painting by Devambez, also entitled Sur l’herbe, exhibited at the Salon of 1900.
A painter and illustrator of considerable talent, André Devambez studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. Devambez had established a modest critical and commercial reputation, admired for the originality of his compositions, as well as for the charming and often whimsical subject matter of his paintings and drawings. When the artist was in his thirties, he began to devote more time to illustration, contributing drawings to several newspapers and magazines, and designing menus, invitations, programmes and advertisements. Devambez used a classical style, strewn with wit and humour to depict the world around him; an aesthetic that was very popular with publications, where his work often created an ideal marriage between text and image.