April 17, 2024
FRENCH SCHOOL 1823 - ITALIAN COASTAL SCENE SIGN. ALAUX - ROME DRAWING
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From the collection of a client of many years, is this Italian coastal landscape.The drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash on early 19th century paper, depicts an animated Italian coastal landscape with a lighthouse in the central part of the drawing. Left, there is a small harbour. On the walls of the pier, several people in conversation can be noticed. Right, a roawingboat is leaving.According to the note left below, this must be a coastal town in the Rome region.Authorship : the drawing is from the French school, signed left below J. Alaux. This is the signature of the French artist Jean Alaux, called "the Roman".JEAN ALAUX (Bordeaux 1786 - Paris 1864) : Called "the Roman". Painter of a variety of subjects (historical, mythogical, animated scenes, portraits, etc.), watercolorartist, draftsman. Son of a painter-deocrator, he was the pupil of Pierre Lacour the elder at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. Alaux lived in Paris during the first decades of the 19th century, where has did get in contact with Vernet, Guérin, Scheffer and Delacroix. In 1815, he won the "Grand Prix de Rome", which offered him the possibilty to go to Rome, where he studied in the Villa de Medici between 1817 and 1821. He returned definatively to France after 1825, where he participated at the Paris Salon on regular base. Since 1821 however, he allready
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