Portrait of the artist's wife Juliette Grün reading an old parchment.
Oil on canvas, signature lower right "Grün"
Sketch for a larger format sold in 2006.
Good condition, period frame.
Dimensions:
With frame: 74 x 52 cm
Canvas: 55 x 33 cm
Jules Alexandre Grün is a French painter, illustrator and poster artist. Jules Grün was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Lavastre, painter-decorator of the Paris Opera, and landscape painter Antoine Guillemet. His favorite themes are still lifes, portraits and scenes of Parisian life. On April 12, 1904, Jules Grün married Marie-Juliette Toutain (1877-1948).