Hippolyte Gide, XIXth Century, Painted Dish Of A Hunting Scene, Group Portrait Of Hounds, Or Pack Dogs

Very beautiful impressionist hollow plate painted in full of portraits in group of hounds or dogs pack.
Work of the artist (St-Germain en Laye 1852 - Paris 1921); notably known and reputed for the quality of his watercolors of hunting scenes with hounds.
* Signed H Gide 87 * ( for 1887).
Diameter : 33,5 cm / Height : 4 cm / Weight : 960 g
This dish (another one of larger diameter is on sale simultaneously in our gallery) stands out, like the second one proposed in another advertisement, by the very particular characteristic of the earthenware support which seems to have been very little used by the artist, which participates in making them much more singular works than his usual watercolors.
The four dogs are represented in partial superposition of their portraits in profile on a naturalist background of undergrowth, the circumference of the scene painted on the wing of the dish of a tangle of climbing creeper and other foliage.
Note that the dish is much more beautiful in reality because the photos do not reproduce well the colors and contrasts, nor the satin side of the surface texture that shows the brushwork of the painter in backlight.
For further information, this painting was done on a "blanc" in Sarreguemines earthenware (the second plate is painted on a "blanc" of large diameter which has this particular shape of large curved cup very used by the impressionist painters on earthenware from Montigny-sur-Loing).

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Hunting with hounds, Venery