Jules-Bernard GELIBERT - Study of a Breton spaniel hunting

Jules-Bertrand GELIBERT
Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes Pyrénées), 1834 – Capbreton (Landes), 1916
Oil on panel
Signed lower right "Jules-Brd Gélibert"
32 x 40.5 cm (41 x 49 cm with frame)
Enrolled in the School of Fine Arts, Jules-Bertrand Gélibert was first a pupil of his father Paul and the sculptor Bernard Griffoul-Dorval. If he first exhibited sculptures, it was already a portrait of a dog that he produced in 1860 with the statue of "Druid", a dog of the Prince Imperial.
But Jules Bertrand Gélibert is primarily known today as a painter of hunting and hunting dogs. His studio was in Montmartre, 17 boulevard Pigalle. In 1861, he obtained an honorable mention at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1865 he lived in Clamart and was a pupil of Louis-Godefroy Janin, the great painter specializing in dogs. We know that he also painted with his brother and when Jules painted animals, Gaston painted landscapes.
Among his famous hunting pictures, in 1875 a "Hallali of deer in the ponds of Belle Croix" in the forest of Fontainebleau is noticed. Critics admire "the vigor of design and color, of movement and keenness of observation". At the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and that of 1900, he obtained bronze medals.
A great lover of hound hunting, he follows the Rallye Sivry in Fontainebleau and the Bois Boudran team with Count Greffulhe as well as the hunts of the Baron de Lassus. On the initiative of the Société Centrale Canine chaired by the Prince of Wagram, the Salon of hunting and hunting painters and sculptors was founded in 1890, chaired by Jules-Bertrand Gélibert. It was held from 1890 to 1912 in the Orangery of the Jardin des Tuileries.
In addition to museums (in New York, London, Paris, Bagnères, Cambrai, Saint-Etienne and Tarbes), the paintings of Jules-Bertrand Gélibert can also be found today in many castles and French residences (at the Murat, Wagram, Carayon-Latour, etc.).
(Sources: Benezit dictionary, the Grand universal dictionary of the 19th century by Mr. Pierre Larousse, the animalartparis.com site)

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