Eugène Petit
{{short description|French painter}}
File:Eugene Petit (France, 1839-1886) «Blumenstillleben».jpg
Eugène Petit (1839–1886) was a French flower painter and textile designer.[http://www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/eugene-petit.html Burlington Paintings]{{Cite web |url=http://www.sladmore.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=110450 |title=Sladmore Gallery |access-date=2012-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094403/http://www.sladmore.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=110450 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book| last = Lowrey| first = Carol| title = A Legacy of Art Paintings and Sculptures by Artist Life Members of the National Arts Club| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QkgvGYj34UMC&pg=PA162| year = 2007| publisher = Hudson Hills| isbn = 978-0-615-15499-2| page = 162 }}Laurence Jankowski de Niewmierzycki - Le patrimoine du Sénat - 1996 Page 194 "Un second exemplaire est tissé d'avril 1885 à avril 1891, PIVOINES 1880-1882 et 1883-1886 Daprès Eugène Petit (1839-1886) Manufacture de Benuvais Escalier d'honneur "
Biography
Eugene Petit was born in Paris in 1839. He briefly taught the American painter Henry Woodbridge Parton, {{circa}}1875.
He specialized in still life paintings of flowers and fruits, as well as sporting dogs. His work has been found in museums in Carcassonne, Compiègne, Courtrai, Rouen and Saint-Etienne in France as well as The Sladmore Gallery in London. Some of his work has been auctioned at Bonhams.[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/13072/lot/30/ Bonhams][http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17727/lot/7001/ Bonhams] One of his hunting scenes, "On the Scent, Setters" sold at Sothebys in New York for $13,200 in 2006.Sothebys Auction: [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2006/sporting-art-n08260/lot.126.html Lot 126 - Eugène Petit], New York, 30 November 2006
Work
- Summer Flowers in a Vase
- Still life with peonies and roses
- Daisies, Poppies And Wild Roses
- Summer blooms in a glass vase
- Spaniels hunting duck
- Still life
- Setters flushing out ducks
- Chrysanthemums in a brass urn, and a silver tray and jug on a draped table
- The Chase
- Setters flushing out duck
- Blossom branches and peonies in a vase
- On the point
- On the point 2
- Pointers on the scent
- Pointers by the edge of a lake
- A pointer and a setter on the scent
- The Garden Gate
- Two Pointers Hunting by a Path
- Le chemin aux arbres et fleurs
References
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External links
- [http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/artist57008/Eugene-Petit/page-1 WikiGallery]
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Category:19th-century French painters