Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian, 1796-1877)
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Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian, 1796-1877)

The morning news; and A suitable proposal

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Jean-Baptiste Madou (Belgian, 1796-1877)
The morning news; and A suitable proposal
the first signed and dated 'Madou 1872' (lower left); the second indistinctly inscribed and signed '...auche/ Madou' (lower left)
oil on panel
24 x 31 ¾ in. (60.5 x 80 cm.)
(2)a pair
Provenance
Baron Gustave Springer, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Madou taught art to the children of the Belgian royal family and painted a series of decorative paintings for the chateau of Ciergnon for King Leopold.
The artist was skilled at depicting lively genre compositions. Using a confined interior, he would show heightened emotional responses from a collection of characters to a central action. Baron Gustave Springer, one of the leading industrialists in the heyday of Kaiser Franz Joseph, enjoyed staging amateur theatricals in Meidling, the great house he had built in the outskirts of Vienna. It is believed he commissioned Madou to record these tableaux's of himself and his friends.

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