HENRI ÉMILE VOLLET (1861-1945) - Lot 27

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HENRI ÉMILE VOLLET (1861-1945) - Lot 27
HENRI ÉMILE VOLLET (1861-1945) Commémoration à la stèle d'un lettré (Tonkin) Oil on canvas, signed lower right 54,5 x 73 cm - 21 7/16 x 28 3/4 in. Born in 1861, Henry Emile Vollet was a pupil of Fernand Cormon, a painter who taught several famous artists in his studio at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, including Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Lin Fengmian. Vollet was much acclaimed by the artistic milieu of his time, receiving a special award at the 1888 Salon des Artistes Français, and the bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He featured Vietnamese scholars in several of his paintings: an intellectual subject close to the history painting that made his name. He used a Western technique and based his style closely on the Impressionists and the Nabis to convey the traditional solemnity of this scene, where the intense colours of the clothing contrast with the soft shades of the surrounding vegetation. Coming from the prestigious personal collection of President Paul Doumer, former Governor General of Indochina, our painting can be compared with the work that appeared in the exhibition Du Fleuve rouge au Mékong: visions du Viet Nam, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, September 20, 2012 - January 27, 2013 (repr. p. 25 in the exhibition catalog)/ Aguttes sale, March 11, 2020, lot 8/Collections of the Museum Pasifika, Bali (acquired from the previous) We can also mention the one registered at the Centre national des arts plastiques (FNAC 1724), entitled Le Jardin des Lettrés à Hanoi, circa 1904. Acquired from the artist in 1905/ Having appeared in 1904 at the Salon de la Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français, n°259. Paris; in 1905 at the Exhibition of works acquired or commissioned by the State and at the Colonial Exhibition of Nogent, n°275/ on deposit at the Ministry of Colonies (then Ministry of Overseas France) since November 10, 1906.
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