The child and the hunt, fan leaf by the painter Marcius-Simons, late 19th century
The child and the hunt, fan leaf by the painter Marcius-Simons, late 19th century
Fan project painted on skin (watercolor?) of a young boy and hunting scenes, on one side English-style hunting with hounds and on the other a Western-style lasso hunt.
Signed and dedicated in English: To Mrs J. Manfield. Marcius-Simons
Good condition (crease)
Framed and under glass
With an explanatory plate by Italian expert Aldo Dente
Size : for the leaf +/- 22 x 56 cm (max with frame : 53 x 82 cm)
American painter Pinckney Marcius-Simons (New York, USA 1867- Bayreuth, Germany 1909) studied in France. A pupil of French painter and playwright Jean-Georges Vibert, he was influenced by Detaille, Gérôme and Turner. Although he initially made a name for himself as a genre painter and exhibited at the Paris Salon, he radically changed his style in the 1890s, moving closer to the Symbolists with phantasmagorical works inspired by Christian religious visions, elements of classical mythology and scenes strongly influenced by Richard Wagner's operas.
This fan is listed in the Witt library photo library with a reproduction and auction notice (Sotheby's October 12, 1977).
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Signed and dedicated in English: To Mrs J. Manfield. Marcius-Simons
Good condition (crease)
Framed and under glass
With an explanatory plate by Italian expert Aldo Dente
Size : for the leaf +/- 22 x 56 cm (max with frame : 53 x 82 cm)
American painter Pinckney Marcius-Simons (New York, USA 1867- Bayreuth, Germany 1909) studied in France. A pupil of French painter and playwright Jean-Georges Vibert, he was influenced by Detaille, Gérôme and Turner. Although he initially made a name for himself as a genre painter and exhibited at the Paris Salon, he radically changed his style in the 1890s, moving closer to the Symbolists with phantasmagorical works inspired by Christian religious visions, elements of classical mythology and scenes strongly influenced by Richard Wagner's operas.
This fan is listed in the Witt library photo library with a reproduction and auction notice (Sotheby's October 12, 1977).
https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/sec-menu/search/detail/03a54e28-249a-11ee-83f0-ac1f6ba5d150/media/edb70c43-fa84-0c29-d546-2e269472d190?mode=detail&view=horizontal&q=marcius%20simons&rows=1&page=4
