Lot Essay
Vibert studied with Picot and Barrias at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon from 1864 onwards.
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'Un Conte de Fée': The Artist's Mother greeted by Three Magicians, one as the German Teacher, another the Family Priest, all in a Dream Landscape populated by Goblins and other Creatures
Details
Jean-Georges Vibert* (French, 1840-1902)
'Un Conte de Fée': The Artist's Mother greeted by Three Magicians, one as the German Teacher, another the Family Priest, all in a Dream Landscape populated by Goblins and other Creatures
signed 'J.G. Vibert.'
black chalk, watercolor, bodycolor heightened with white on cream paper
17¼ x 26¾ in. (443 x 687 mm.)
'Un Conte de Fée': The Artist's Mother greeted by Three Magicians, one as the German Teacher, another the Family Priest, all in a Dream Landscape populated by Goblins and other Creatures
signed 'J.G. Vibert.'
black chalk, watercolor, bodycolor heightened with white on cream paper
17¼ x 26¾ in. (443 x 687 mm.)
Provenance
Comte Nissim de Camondo.
Literature
E. Bellier de la Chavignerie amd L. Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'Ecole française, New York and London, 1979, p. 669.
Exhibited
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878, no. 56.