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Léon-François-Antoine FLEURY (Paris 1804-1858)
Portrait of M…
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Léon-François-Antoine FLEURY (Paris 1804-1858)
Portrait of M…
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Lot no. 43
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Léon-François-Antoine FLEURY (Paris 1804-1858)
Portrait of Martin Guillaume Biennais (1764-1843), goldsmith and his wife Marie Anne (?-1859)
Pair of canvases, oval view.
Signed lower left Léon Fleury and L. Fleury
32.5 x 27 cm and 37 x 28.8 cm
Restoration period wood and gilded stucco frame.
Provenance: descendants of the models
Related bibliography: Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Revue du Louvre 2014/2, acquisitions section, p.51, n°5 and 6.
A pupil of Jean Victor Bertin and Louis Hersent, our artist, known for his brilliant career as a landscape painter, is often mentioned with only his first name.
often mentioned with only his first name.
Isabelle Tamisier Vétois, Meubles à secrets, secrets de meubles, Paperback, 2018
Martin Guillaume Biennais, l'Empereur des orfèvres, cat. exp. Yerres, Propriété Caillebotte, 29 May-3 October 2021, pp. 86-89.
In 1835, Biennais asked Caillebotte to paint his portrait and that of his wife. He wore the Légion d'honneur on the lapel of his frock coat
of his frock coat, his left hand hidden in a Napoleonic gesture. With his right hand, he holds out a medal
effigy of the Emperor, his protector. There are other replicas of our two portraits, with few variations,
at the Château de Malmaison museum, (canvases, 37x29 cm, acquired in 2013 ( M.M.2013.2.4).
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