CHARLES VERLAT (1824-1890) SIGNED OIL to $77,000 LOVERS - LARGE PAINTING SIGNED

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CHARLES VERLAT (1824-1890) SIGNED OIL to $77,000 LOVERS - LARGE PAINTING SIGNED CHARLES VERLAT (1824-1890) SIGNED OIL to $77,000 LOVERS - LARGE PAINTING SIGNED CHARLES VERLAT ( 1824 - 1890 ) A beautiful painting of two lovers by Charles Verlat. The work is signed and unlined and very impressive. The painyting is hiughly detailed and in its probably original frame. A lovely example by a major painter. Title: "The Lovers" Signature: Signd lower left Provenance: Private Collection - London Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 26 x 20 inches unframed / 34 x 28 framed Condition: Very nice for age ABOUT THE ARTIST: Verlat initially took the advice of both his mother and the Dutch sculptor Vanderven., attending the academy in the town of his birth, where he was the pupil of Nicaise, de Keyser and Whappers. In 1849 he departed for Paris, where he remained for 18 years. He linked up with the Stevens brothers, worked in the studio of Ary Scheffer, and was impressed by the realism of Courbet. In 1866, summoned by the Duke of Saxony-Weimar to direct his academy of fine arts, he studied the German primitive painters, and painted some portraits. He then visited the East, and spent two years in Palestine, where he painted Biblical scenes. He was appointed a lecturer at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, becoming its director in 1885. He took part in the renaissance of the engraving studios in Antwerp. Verlat's epic aspirations led him to paint big cats and hunting scenes. For personal financial reasons, he executed small humorous pictures whose characters are monkeys, which he called, tongue in cheek, his 'monkey business'. Verlat was awarded medals in Paris in 1853, 1855 and 1878, and was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1868. Museum and Gallery Holdings Amsterdam: Fight to the Death Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.): The Tip of the Tail and the Point of the Ear Antwerp: The Painter Joseph Lies; The Mother of the Messiah and the Four Evangelists (triptych); The Defence of the Livestock; A Real Effort; The Statue of the Duke of Alba Found in the Streets of Antwerp and Smashed by the People (1577); The Voice of God (Vox Dei) (triptych); Oxen (two works); Cock; Pig and Donkey; Lion Attacked by Buffalo; The King of the Farmyard; The Painter Lod. Derckx; The Painter Lamorinière; Piet� Bremen: Family of Ducks Brussels: Godefroy de Bouillon at the Attack on Jerusalem; Sheepdog Defending Its Flock against an Eagle; Study Graz: Cat Watching Its Prey; Fox with Its Booty Le Havre: Dogs Playing Liège: The First Baby Provins: Small Griffon Terrier Weimar: Portraits of Franz Liszt and Fr. Breller Auction Records Paris, 1876: Woodcutter and His Daughter Attacked by a Bear, FRF 1,200 Paris, 1880: The Good Prince, FRF 2,100 Berlin, 17 May 1895: Fox Watching Ducks, FRF 612 Paris, 1900: The Woodcutter and the Bear, FRF 2,100 London, 6 Dec 1909: Cat and Sparrow (1861) GBP 6 Paris, 17 Dec 1948: Fox Watching Ducks, FRF 8,000 Paris, 1954: The Cock, FRF 52,000 Cologne, 23 March 1973: Girl with her Dog (1865) DEM 15,000 Brussels, 25 May 1974: Fox in the Hen House (1868) BEF 68,000 Brussels, 12 Dec 1979: Dog and Cat (oil on wood, 8¼ × 11 ins/21 × 27 cm) BEF 32,000 Antwerp, 21 May 1985: Monkey and Cat (1883, oil on panel, 25¼ × 19 ins/64 × 48 cm) BEF 180,000 London, 16 Feb 1990: The New Trick (1868, oil on canvas, 28½ × 23 ins/72.4 × 58.4 cm) GBP 7,480 Amsterdam, 2 Nov 1992: A Dog (1879, oil on canvas, 52¾ × 33½ ins/134 × 85 cm) NLG 7,475 Calais, 13 Dec 1992: The Cat and the Mouse (oil on panel, 13¾ × 11 ins/35 × 27 cm) FRF 8,000 Amsterdam, 20 April 1993: A Bear in the Woods (oil on canvas, 39 × 31 ins/99 × 79 cm) NLG 8,050 Lokeren, 4 Dec 1993: Cat and Mouse (oil on panel, 14 × 11 ins/35.5 × 27 cm) BEF 48,000 read more

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