July 14 & 15, 2020 Fine & Decorative Arts
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2020
Charles Pearce was a painter best known for his portraits and genre scenes. Born in Boston, he embarked upon a career as a painter and in 1873, with the advice of William Morris Hunt, an early American impressionist, moved to Paris to study at the Leon Bonnat School. There he studied with fellow student, John Singer Sargent, and soon became a member of an artist's circle consisting of other expatriates including Chester Loomis, Edwin Blashfield, and Milne Ramsey. Pearce's sentimental interpretation of rural life in Northern France was taken from French academic peasant painters. Pearce remained an expatriate, settling his studio 20 miles outside of Paris in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1885, where this painting was made. He later worked on many international art juries and towards the end of his career, contributed a series of six lunette murals to the decoration of the Library of Congress. Label from Spanierman Gallery on reverse. Several very minor areas of inpainting. Relined.
This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made.Item Dimensions: Frame: 67 - 1/4" x 53 - 3/4".
Artist
CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE (AMERICAN, 1851 - 1914).
Signature
Signed CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE 1889".