Victor Gabriel Gilbert

{{short description|French painter (1847-1933)}}

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| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1933|7|21|1847|2|13}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| nationality = French

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Victor Gabriel Gilbert (13 February 1847 – 21 July 1933) was a French painter[http://www.macconnal-mason.com/Gilbert-Victor-Gabriel-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=26884 Biography of Victor Gabriel Gilbert in MacConnal-Mason Gallery]. mostly known for his Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there. He studied with Victor Adam (1801–1866) and subsequently with Charles Busson (1822–1908). In 1889 he was awarded a silver medal in the Société des Artistes Français, and a Bonnat prize in 1926 at the end of his career.

Expositions

  • 1873: Salon des artistes français (represented with the paintings Avant le bal' en Les apprêts du diner)[https://www.artnet.fr/artistes/victor-gabriel-gilbert/biographie Artnet.fr, Victor Gabriel, exposities], geraadpleegd op 1 uni 2025
  • 1874: Salon des artistes français (Le pot au feu)
  • 1875: Salon des artistes français (Portrait de Madame M.)
  • 1880: Salon des artistes français;
  • 1881: Salon des artistes français;
  • 1883: Exposition in Munich;
  • 1893: World's Columbian Exposition[https://www.google.be/books/edition/Official_Catalogue/rxVaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=victor+gabriel+gilbert&pg=PA81&printsec=frontcover Offficiële catalogus, World's Columbian Exposition, p.81], retrieved on 1 June 2025
  • 1894: Exposition in Vienna;
  • 1908: Exposition in London

Works in museums

  • La Halle aux poissons, le matin (1880, oil on canvas, 181 × 140 cm) in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille;
  • Musée Carnavalet, Paris
  • Coquelicots dans un champ (attributed to Victor Gilbert, 1880, oil on panel, 26,8 × 35,2 cm) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
  • Petit Palais, Paris
  • Tentation (1892, photogravure on paper, 18 × 14 cm) in the Musée Goupil, Bordeaux;
  • Le Carreau des Halles (1880, 54 × 74 cm) in the Musée Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre;
  • La Demoiselle, Huile sur bois (41 × 32 cm) in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Bayeux;
  • Marchande de volailles lisant (oil on canvas; 46 × 56 cm) in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art;
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Château de Dieppe, Dieppe
  • Un coin des Halles (oil on canvas; 235 × 331 cm) in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
  • British Museum, London[https://www.google.be/books/edition/Index_of_Artists_Represented_in_the_Depa/hltPAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=victor+gabriel+gilbert&pg=PA115&printsec=frontcover Index of Artists, British Museum], geraadpleegd op 1 uni 2025
  • Les Halles le Matin, La Boverie, Liège
  • RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island[https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/flower-vendor-74058 RISD Museum, work by Victor Gilbert], retrieved on 1 juni 2025
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau
  • Hotel du Louvre

Sources: [https://www.useum.org/artist/Victor-Gilbert Useum.org, Victor Gilbert], geraadpleegd op 1 juni 2025[https://www.galeriearyjan.com/pdf-2-639-645-gilbert-victor-gabriel--les-cuisiniers-.htm Biografie Victor Gilbert], geraadpleegd op 1 juni 2025[https://www.google.be/books/edition/Les_Halles/09XSDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=victor+gabriel+gilbert&pg=PA61&printsec=frontcover Les Halles: Images d’un quartier, Collectif, Jean-Louis Robert, Myriam Tsikounas, 2016, p.60], geraadpleegd op 1 juni 2025

Gallery

File:A Parisian Flower Market.jpg|A Parisian Flower Market

File:Gilber Le marche aux legumes.jpg|The Vegetable Market (1878)

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - Le Dejeuner du chat, 1879.jpg|The Cat's Lunch (1879)

File:Victor Gilbert - La moisson.jpg|The Harvest

File:Victor-Gabriel-Gilbert Jeune-femme-dans-le-jardin-fleuri.jpg|Young Woman in the Flower Garden (circa 1885)

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert Liebevolle Blumenpflege.jpg|Loving Flower Care

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert marchande de fleurs pres du Pont du Louvre.jpg|Flower Seller near the Louvre Bridge

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert, 1880 - Le carreau des halles.jpg|Le Carreau des Halles (1880)

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert Le jour de marche.jpg|The Day of Walking (1881)

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - The Flower Market.jpg|The Flower Market

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert Gardening.jpg|Gardening

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert Hay making.jpg|Hay Making (circa 1880)

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - précaution.jpg|Precaution

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - Offering a Flower to a Child.jpg|Offering a Flower to a Child

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - Le goûter au jardin public.jpg|Afternoon Tea in the Public Garden

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - spectacle de danse.jpg|Dance Show

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - La place de la trinité.jpg|The Place of the Trinity

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - Flower Seller Making a Bouquet.jpg|Flower Seller Making a Bouquet

File:Victor Gabriel Gilbert - A flower seller.jpg|A Flower Seller

File:Goupil-P1020128.jpg|The Toy Store

File:Gilbert-marche-aux-fleurs.jpg|Flower Market

File:Victor Gilbert - Portrait d'une élégante au masque.jpg|Portrait of an elegant woman with a mask

File:Victor-Gabriel Gilbert - Un coin des halles.jpg|Market's Corner - Musée des Beaux-Arts - Bordeaux. In front of, a bust from John Warrington Wood

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