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JEAN BÉRAUD (1849-1946)

Les malheurs de Commandant Laripète, illustration for a book cover (c. 1881 to 1882 France)

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Les malheurs de Commandant Laripète, illustration for a book cover (France)
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Item Stock Code

02222

Item Medium Description

Watercolour, pencil and gouache on paper

Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details

Signed with initials J B lower right

European Dimensions

20.00 cm wide   27.00 cm high

UK/USA Converted Dimensions

7.87 inches wide  10.63 inches high

Item Provenance & History

Sir Robert Mayer CH KCVO (1879–1985)

Item Literature

Armand Silvestre, Les malheurs de Commandant Laripete, reproduced as the cover, c. 1882.
Patrick Offenstadt, Jean Béraud (1849-1845) The Belle Epoque : A Dream of Times Gone by, catalogue raisonné, Taschen - Wildenstein Institute, Paris, 1999, illustrated page 61

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

Armand Silvestre (1837-1901) wrote a series of amusing stories for Paul Ollendorff, editor, from 1881-1884. Jean Béraud illustrated many of the covers.

BÉRAUD
Type Artist/Maker
Country of origin France
Born 1849
Died 1946

Jean Béraud was perhaps the pre-eminent artist of the Belle Époque, defining the period. He was a highly successful painter who portrayed and recorded Paris in the golden age: high society, salons, promenading on the Champs-Élysées, the cosmopolitan Paris of the fashion house of Worth, the Paris whose admiration for Scandinavian and Russian literature, Wagnerian opera, Savile Row tailors and American money knew no bounds. This example encapsulates the finest characteristics of Béraud’s work.
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