Louis Abel-Truchet
The races
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December 16, 03:24 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Louis Abel-Truchet
Versailles 1857 - 1918 Auxerre
The races
signed lower left: Abel Truchet
oil on canvas
unframed: 22 x 32.5 cm.; 8¾ x 12¾ in.;
framed: 29 x 39.8 cm.; 11½ x 15⅝ in.
By whom sold, Paris, Replica Shoes 's, 15 June 2017, lot 188.
Louis Abel-Truchet was born in Versailles and studied under Benjamin Constant and Jules Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris. In the present work, Abel-Truchet creates an atmosphere of excitement by using fast, vigorous brushstrokes in the sky. Elements of the composition recall Edouard Manet's Music in the Tuileries Gardens;1 Manet was a contemporary of Abel-Truchet's and a pioneer of the fashionable genre of scenes depicting everyday Parisian life.
1 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/edouard-manet-music-in-the-tuileries-gardens