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Attributed to Claude-Marie DUBUFE (Paris, 1790 - La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 1864) The Awakening Oil on canvas. Circa 1830 In its original gilded frame from the Charles X period. 58,5 x 73 cm. (Restorations and repaints). Destined by his family to a consular career, the young Claude-Marie Dubufe enters as an amateur in the studio of David who notices his talent and tries to persuade his father to let him become a painter. In 1810, he was accepted at the Salon with Apollo and Cyparisse, then traveled to Italy. In Palermo, he was introduced to the Orleans family, whose portraits he painted. This protection allowed him to become one of the great portraitists of the Restoration, to whom he received commissions from the nobility and the upper middle class. In 1827, Dubufe undertook a series of expressive figures whose charm sometimes turns to eroticism, images of beautiful women embodying feelings such as Modesty, Candor, Abandonment, Despair, etc.. Others are surprised in intimate moments such as The Sleep or The Awakening. Les Regrets and Les Souvenirs will be translated into lithographs that will sell more than 80 000 copies! These successes will make Dubufe considered as a commercial painter, but Baudelaire will see in him one of the best painters of the romantic woman.
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Attributed to Claude-Marie DUBUFE (Paris, 1790 - La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 1864) The Awakening Oil on canvas. Circa 1830 In its original gilded frame from the Charles X period. 58,5 x 73 cm. (Restorations and repaints). Destined by his family to a consular career, the young Claude-Marie Dubufe enters as an amateur in the studio of David who notices his talent and tries to persuade his father to let him become a painter. In 1810, he was accepted at the Salon with Apollo and Cyparisse, then traveled to Italy. In Palermo, he was introduced to the Orleans family, whose portraits he painted. This protection allowed him to become one of the great portraitists of the Restoration, to whom he received commissions from the nobility and the upper middle class. In 1827, Dubufe undertook a series of expressive figures whose charm sometimes turns to eroticism, images of beautiful women embodying feelings such as Modesty, Candor, Abandonment, Despair, etc.. Others are surprised in intimate moments such as The Sleep or The Awakening. Les Regrets and Les Souvenirs will be translated into lithographs that will sell more than 80 000 copies! These successes will make Dubufe considered as a commercial painter, but Baudelaire will see in him one of the best painters of the romantic woman.
