EDOUARD BERNARD JOSEPH SWEBACH is a painter and engraver of genre and military scenes, in line with his father Jacques François Swebach de Fontaines, with whom he shared a taste for this type of subject. After attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he exhibited for several years in the Salons. There he met with a certain success linked to his style and the very popular subjects he loved. Many of the artist's works are preserved in French museums which attest to the interest that the institutions of the time showed in him: Cherbourg, Montpellier, etc. His style is characterized by its chromatic richness and the quality of his line. In these two paintings, the painter combines his passion for the representation of bourgeois life with his taste for hunting scenes then highly appreciated by the public. The hunting clothes, very fashionable during the Second Empire, are detailed with great care, as if they were the real theme of the work. Recent relining, original frames. Gilt wood frames.
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