Oil On Canvas, Galante Scene 1900, Signed Jan Van Beers Le Jeune, The Secret, Nineteenth

Old oil on canvas signed by the artist Jan Van Beers (1852-1927).
Composition representing a young couple whispering a secret in their partner's ear.
The artist is thus represented with his wife Rosalie Capoulade.
Jan Van Beers regularly represented his wife who was 17 years younger than him.
Frequentation disapproved by the family who refuses a son-in-law with a sulphurous reputation, they fled secretly.
The family still today proclaims the version that Rosalie was kidnapped: a more acceptable version for her reputation.
Very high quality of execution, both in terms of the quality of the skin texture and the details.
The frame measures 74CM x 60CM
The canvas measures 57CM X 41CM
Oil on canvas presented in its original Neo Louis XV style frame.
Together in good condition and presented for the first time on the art market.

Jan Van Beers, also known as Jan Van Beers "the Younger", was a Belgian painter born March 27, 1852 in Lier in the province of Antwerp and died in France in Fay-aux-Loges (Loiret) on November 17, 1927. Biography He is the son of the poet Jan van Beers. He studied Fine Arts in Antwerp with Alexandre Struys and lived together for a few months in an apartment tastefully furnished by Father Struys, a future antique dealer, then they separated after an eventful trip to London. They had frequent contact with Jef Lambeaux there. He moved to Paris in 1878 and worked in the studio of Alfred Stevens and Struys joined the School of Fine Arts in Weimar. He created a scandal in 1881 at the Brussels Salon where he exhibited two paintings. He is accused of having painted his painting Le Yacht La Sirène on a photograph. He then proposed to entrust the analysis to experts, but a visitor scratched the canvas himself, which added to the magnitude of the affair. A committee of experts after study declared that there was no photograph. He entrusted illustrations to numerous periodicals such as the Revue illustrée. He can be seen as a “worldly painter”.