The Tired Little Helper
CHARLES CHAPLIN (1825-1891)
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Dimensions 35.00inch wide 45.00inch high (88.90 cm wide 114.30 cm high) 44.50inch framed width 53.50inch framed height (113.03 cm framed width 135.89 cm framed height) |
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Description The Tired Little Helper CHARLES CHAPLIN |
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Stock no.
H62806
Period
1825
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Literature H62806 THE TIRED LITTLE HELPER CHARLES CHAPLIN 1825 – 1891 Oil on canvas 45 x 35 inches Framed size 53 ½ x 44 ½ inches Chaplin was born in Les Andelys, Eure on the 8 June 1825 and went on to become a painter. His father was English and his mother French but Chaplin only became a naturalized Frenchman in 1886 although he worked in France all his life. He was a pupil a the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1840 and he regularly visited the studio of Michel-Martin Drolling, whose pupils included Paul Baudry, Jean-Jacques Henner and Jules Breton. In 1845 he entered the Salon as a portrait and landscape painter with his Portrait of the Artists Mother (untraced). His early works from 1848 to 1851 are characterized by a concern for realism which had been restored to fashion by the Second Republic: he painted the landscape of the Auvergne, showing a regionalism that is found also, for example, in works by Adolphe Leleux and Armand Leleux. Chaplin soon rejected this earlier manner in favor of a more supple and gracious style that ensured him fame as a portrait painter. His portraits of women, often half length, with half clad models posed slightly erotically in misty settings, appealed to society in the Third Republic and ensured his success, although his genre pictures are not the most important part of his painted work. As a decorator, Chaplin painted the ceiling and panels over the doors of the Salon des Fleurs in the Tuileries in 1861 (which was destroyed) and he also painted part of the decoration for the Salon de I’ Hemicycle in the Palais de I’Elysee. Chaplin died in Paris on 30 January 1891. Works in Museums: Bordeaux; Bowes Museum County Durham 4; Buenos Aries; Hermitage Museum; Musee d’Orsay Paris; Musee de Louvre; San Francisco Fine Art Museum 5. Bibl: Benezit |
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Guide Price
gbp 10001-15000 (Pound Sterling)
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