Eug\u00e8ne Henri Cauchois (1850-1911) a country basket of grapes and fruit oil on canvas circa 1890<\/b><\/p>\n
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A very fine quality of execution in this beautiful and decorative oil on canvas, depicting a beautiful basket on the ground in the countryside, filled with black grapes, white grapes, and pear and apple fruits.<\/p>\n
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Signed lower right by Eug\u00e8ne Henri Cauchois, late 19th century circa 1890.<\/p>\n
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Sizes unframed: H 31.29 Inches - W 25.59 Inches.<\/p>\n
Sizes with frame: H 42.51 Inches - W 36.22 Inches.<\/p>\n
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Very fine condition, professionally cleaned, with three minor old restorations that do not alter the quality of the artwork. The painting is in a magnificent carved wood and gilded stucco frame from the same period.<\/p>\n
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Eug\u00e8ne Cauchois, born in Rouen (Seine Maritime), February 14, 1850, died in Paris, October 7, 1911. French painter.<\/p>\n
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Eug\u00e8ne Cauchois entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the classes of Ferdinand Dubos and Alexandre Cabanel. He specializes in still-life compositions based on fruit, flowers, and kitchen utensils. He also painted landscapes and marine views.<\/p>\n
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In 1876 in Paris, he married Louise Ladev\u00e8ze, with painter Eug\u00e8ne Capelle as his best man.<\/p>\n
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He stayed in Brussels in 1878-1879. He was in the habit of signing his paintings with the name of the month in which they were painted.<\/p>\n
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At the end of his life, Eug\u00e8ne Cauchois took up decorative painting with floral compositions.<\/p>\n
He had a Parisian studio at number 32 rue des Dames in Paris (17th arrondissement). The painter Marcellin Desboutin (1823-1902) was his neighbor there.<\/p>\n
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Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts d\u2019Anger : Fleurs des champs et fruits.<\/p>\n
Mus\u00e9e de Louviers : Chez le jardinier – Aux halles.<\/p>\n
Mus\u00e9e Ingres de Montauban : Fleurs.<\/p>\n
Mus\u00e9e Hyacinthe Rigaud de Perpignan : Marine.<\/p>\n
Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rouen : Collection d’horlogerie – La Porte rose – Le train a pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n
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Eug\u00e8ne Cauchois made his first exhibition at Le Salon de 1874, then sent his works to the Salon des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais in 1881, 1890 (where he became a member), 1898 (third-class medal), 1904 (second-class medal), and 1908 (Le train a pass\u00e9; M\u00e9lancolie).<\/p>\n
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Exposition Universelle de 1900, m\u00e9daille de bronze.<\/p>\n
Galerie Karin Carton\u00a0: Nature morte aux fraises.<\/p>\n
Galerie Roussel\u00a0: Fruits\u00a0; Animaux\u00a0; Nature morte.<\/p>\n
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Dictionnaire B\u00e9n\u00e9zit.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9 Roussard, Dictionnaire des peintres \u00e0 Montmartre, Roissy-en-Brie, \u00e9d. A. Roussard, 1999, 640 p., p.\u00a0125.<\/p>\n
G\u00e9rald Schurr, Les petits ma\u00eetres de la peinture, \u00e9dition de l’Amateur.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eug\u00e8ne Henri Cauchois (1850-1911) Un campagnard panier de raisins et de fruits huile sur toile vers 1890 Beaucoup de qualit\u00e9 d\u2019ex\u00e9cution dans cette belle et d\u00e9corative huile sur toile, repr\u00e9sentant un beau panier pos\u00e9 au sol en pleine campagne, rempli de raisins noir agr\u00e9ment\u00e9 de raisins blanc et de fruits poires et pommes. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cate"],"yoast_head":"\n