4276 - Paul Delaroche, Renaissance Society

Paul Delaroche, Renaissance Society Two gentlemen seated at a table in a parlour, with a lady in the centre pouring water; all dressed in period costume; a slightly sketch-like painting; oil on canvas; first half of the 19th century; signed ‘P. Delaroche”, further attribution to the artist with biographical details on a label on the reverse, mounted on a backing board, signs of wear, gilded frame, minimal knocks, inner dimensions 38.5 x 46 cm. Auctioned on 11 May 1926 as Lot 36 at Bangel Auction House in Frankfurt am Main (illustrated in the auction catalogue, Plate 11). Artist information: actually Hippolyte de la Roche, French painter (1797, Paris - 1856, Paris), from 1816 trained as a landscape painter under Louis Étienne Watelet and subsequently under Antoine-Jean Gros; first exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1822; from 1932 a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and a teacher at the École des beaux-arts; from 1837, he worked on the 27-metre-long monumental painting for the examination hall of the École des beaux-arts; in 1838 and 1843, he undertook study trips to Italy; in 1849, he travelled to Germany. Source: Thieme-Becker and Wikipedia.