Still Life Oil On Canvas Signed Henri-charles De Serres (1823-1897)

Still life presenting a rabbit hanging by its hind leg in a kitchen, surrounded by tomatoes, cabbage, leeks and various vegetables and herbs.
Oil on canvas, re-canvased by our workshop, perfectly restored, signed Ch De Serres 89 lower right.
The canvas is presented in a beautiful gilded wooden frame on which a cartouche presents Still Life by Charles de Serres.
Dimensions 68cm by 58cm excluding frame.
Frame dimensions 83.5 by 93cm.

Henri Charles de Serres born in Paris in 1923 and died in Garches in 1897 is a painter of portraits, genre, landscapes, still lifes, flowers and designer, he was a student of M. de Rudder. He debuted at the Salon of 1846. Although he is not known for his personal work, he was a very talented copyist. We owe him, among other things, a copy of Rembrandt's Merchants' Syndics executed in Amsterdam in 1850-51 on commission from the Minister of Fine Arts which was the subject of praise from the sponsor. We also owe him in 1882 a copy of The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople by Eugène Delacroix which was in the gallery of battles of the Versailles museum, intended for the Louvre. But the Louvre preferred to take ownership of the original, which means that the copy is still in Versailles. Work to consult: Pierre Marbotte, Charles de Serres, Artist and Citizen (1988, ISBN2-9502633-0-5).