Alexis Joseph Mazerolle (1826-1889) The Harvest Oil On Canvas Circa 1850-1860

Alexis Joseph Mazerolle (1826-1889) The Harvest oil on canvas circa 1850-1860

Alexis Joseph Mazerolle enjoyed great renown thanks to the quality of his work, and received a large number of prestigious commissions, making him a highly appreciated painter among collectors and art lovers.

A fine painting signed lower left by Alexis Joseph Mazerolle, depicting a harvest scene with a realistic vision of country life in the mid-19th century.

Sizes unframed:   H 12.99 Inches. - W 17.32 Inches.
Sizes with frame:  H 19.68 Inches. - W 24.01 Inches.

In fine original condition.

Biography:

Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle, born in Paris on June 29, 1826, and died in the same city on May 29, 1889, was a French painter.
After entering the Beaux-Arts in 1843, he began designing tapestries and turned to decorative art. He was awarded several medals at the Salon, where he exhibited regularly from 1847 onwards. In the 1860s, he made a name for himself and began an important design career, which lasted until his death. He received commissions for the Conservatoire, the Théâtre de Vaudeville, the Monnaie de Bruxelles, the Opéra Garnier, and the Comédie Française, for which he painted a ceiling that earned him the rank of Officier de la Légion d'honneur. He was also commissioned by private clients, such as the Duc d'Aumale and singer Rosine Stoltz. His last project, for the Bourse de Commerce, was interrupted by his death in 1889.

Works :

Paintings.

1847: La Vieille et les deux servantes, first work exhibited at the Salon.
1857: Chilperic and Frédégonde in front of the corpse of Glaswinthe, 3rd class medal at the Salon.
1857: Les Dormeuses, 3rd-class medal at the Salon.
1858: Vase de fleurs, set of four paintings for the Hôtel du Duc d'Aumale, Chantilly, Musée Condé.
1859: L'Opium, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts.
1859: Nero and Locust trying poisons on a slave, 3rd class medal at the Salon7. Sketch in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.
1859: Quiqui Charlotte, Compiègne, Château de Compiègne.
1861: Éponine implorant la grâce du Gaulois Sabinus, Roubaix, La Piscine, on deposit at the Musée du Louvre. 3rd class medal at the Salon.
1876 and 1888: tapestry after La Filleule des fées, Saint Petersburg, Heritage Museum. This tapestry was shown at the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
1882: Vénus Marine, Fédération nationale André Maginot.
1887: Psyché à la source, Buenos Aires, Museum of Fine Arts.
Venus and Love.
Diogenes seeking a man.
Les Agapes, Saint-Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Art Museum (En).
The Triumph of Bacchus, Paris, Petit Palais.
Louis and Fernand, portraits of his two sons, Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts.

Ceilings and decorative panels.

Around 1860: a set of religious panels for the bedroom of singer Rosine Stoltz, now in the Musée de l'Oise: Éliézer et Rebecca, Agar et Ismaël, Judith et Holopherne. Ruth and Booz. Adam and Eve. The appearance of the three angels to Abraham. Moses was saved from the waters.
1870: L'Amour et Psyché, ceiling.
Around 1870: Wine and Fruit, Hunting and Fishing, Pastry and Ice Cream, Tea and Coffee, and tapestries for the Rotonde du Glacier at the Opéra Garnier.
1879: La France couronnant Molière, Corneille et Racine, the ceiling for the Comédie Française, destroyed by fire in 1900. A preparatory gouache survives.
1889: Decorative panels for the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce.
Two decorative panels for the Duc d'Aumale: Minerva and Neptune vie for the honor of naming the city of Athens. Vulcan gives Venus the weapons he has forged for Aeneas.
Nine Muses, decorative panels for the Conservatoire stage.
Cupola of the Baden-Baden theater.
Foyer ceiling, Angers Theater.
Decoration for the Pavillon Ledoyen.
Decoration for the Hôtel Intercontinental.