Fishing
Sobre a pintura
François Bocion (1828-1890) was born in Lausanne. He first trained with Christian Gottlieb Steinlen (1779-1847) in Vevey and subsequently with François Bonnet (1811-1894) in Lausanne. In Paris in 1845, Bocion entered the atelier of Louis-Aimé Grosclaude (1784-1869) and later that of Charles Gleyre (1806-1874) and befriended Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and other important exponents of the Realist movement. Back in Lausanne in 1849 he became a teacher at the Ecole moyenne et industrielle of Lausane, a position he held until his death. At the same time, he had an extensive output with several travels abroad. He exhibited in Paris, Vienna, Anvers, London and was a founder member of the Swiss society of watercolorists (1884).
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This painting is a fine example of Bocion's early compositions when he was inspired by various subject matters. This Fisherman belongs to a series of portraits of characters Bocion executed in the 1850s. The palette, typically enlivened with purple hues in Bocion's oeuvre, and the handling of paint recalls the Realist movement emerged in Paris in the 1840s.
Museu Vitória e Alberto
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- Número de inventário
- 1595-1869
