Clément-auguste Andrieux - Watercolor Drawing - The Condemned To Death

Watercolor drawing "The recalcitrant condemned to death" by Clément-Auguste Andrieux (1829 - 1800) Signed lower left. Visible at the Courcelles Antiquités Gallery, at 97 rue de Courcelles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Born in 1829 and died in 1880, Clément-Auguste Andrieux was a French painter who specialized in military and genre scenes. Influenced by Gustave Courbert and Carolus Duran, he also produced etchings, drawings and lithographs. From 1850 until his death, he participated in the Paris Salon, where he presented paintings inspired by the wars of the First Empire, the Crimean War, the Franco-German War of 1870-71. In many drawings and watercolours, he depicted the provincial firefighters, the national guards, the communards, the citizens of 1793. He was part of the team of designers for the four-volume edition of the Le Diable suite. in Paris (ed Jules Hetzel, 1868). He collaborated for "Le monde illustré" during the war of 1870. He etched "The Châtillon affair" (September 1870) and humorous lithographs from that period.