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Description: | This work previously attributed to Chardin, the master of still lifes, depicting the traditional French clown Pierrot, is a pendant to Pierrot en Prison (previously in the Rochefort collection) and Pierrot Grimacier (previously in the Rothschild collection); Grimacier' meaning a grimacing or hypocritical Pierrot - he's hypocritical because he's looking sad but he's about to fry the fish. Chardin painted genre scenes (mainly figurative) evoking a sense of stillness that were frequently reproduced in engravings. The style and handling of paint in this work is very unlike Chardin's. The subject was probably inspired by the performance of the famous mime Jean Gaspard Deburau (1796-1846) as Pierrot at the Thétre des Funambules, succeeded by his son Charles (1829-73). Deburau was responsible for sentimentalizing the figure of Pierrot (who first appeared in the seventeenth century) making him look melancholic and love sick. It has been suggested that this could be the work of Andre Gill (1840-85), a master of large caricatures and an illustrator, or Jean Pezous (1815-1885), a landscape and portrait painter. | Subjects: | everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Gill, André (French painter and printmaker, 1840-1885) Æ Attributed to Attributed to Pezous, Jean (French artist, 1815-1885) Previously attributed to Chardin, Jean-Siméon (French painter and draftsman, 1699-1779) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8754... | Go to resource |
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