Portrait of a Sitting Dog, French Oil Painting, 19th Century, Signed and dated 1860

Portrait of a Sitting Dog, French Oil Painting, 19th Century, Signed and dated 1860

Title: portrait of a sitting dog
Dimensions canvas : 57 cm x 81 cm
Dimensions frame: 79 cm x 104 cm
Artist: Jules Caron (1806-1881)
Signature: signed lower right and dated 1860
Nationality: French
School : Barbizon school
Provenance : Private sale Paris

Sold with a very nice period frame in fair condition

Bio of the artist :

Jules Caron (1806–1881) was a Paris-born painter who lived and worked in Bordeaux and Arcachon during the 1850s. Until the end of his life, he continued to submit his works each year to the Salon des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux. Trained in Paris or possibly in Poissy, very little information survives today concerning his early artistic education, apart from his strong interest in the landscape painters who had settled in Barbizon from the 1830s onward.

It was precisely his stay in Arcachon that established him as a highly sought-after painter of views of the bay, produced even before the emergence of the seaside resort town under the impetus of the Pereire brothers. The hotel owner Gaillard commissioned him to decorate the Casino d’Eyrac, while the landowner Adalbert Deganne became his patron.

There, the painter developed an open-air approach to painting, working directly from nature and focusing on maritime subjects and the local culture of Arcachon. Much like Léo Drouyn (1816–1896), he helped lay the foundations of a pictorial tradition centered on the Arcachon Bay, a tradition that continues to this day. In doing so, he paved the way for generations of artists throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who would come to depict and celebrate these coastal landscapes, animated by local traditions and picturesque motifs.

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