Michel Fronti (1862-1935) Interior Of An Office

A calm and cozy atmosphere, 18th century furniture, armchair, Voltaire armchair and desk are the center of interest and the subject of this charming genre scene where the light diffused by the large window plays with the furniture of this bourgeois interior . The work is produced in oil on canvas, in its good original condition (in its own juice, neither cleaned nor restored), it is offered in a pretty Louis XIV style gilded frame which measures 65 cm by 69 cm and 46 cm by 55 cm for the canvas alone. It is signed on the chair, lower right.

A student of Lagier in Marseille, of Benjamin Constant and Lefebvre in Paris, he participated in the Salon des Artistes français from 1889 to 1935. If his first submission was a painting (the Work of "Bouchée de pain à Marseille", in 1889, currently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Marseille), he subsequently only exhibited pastels (Melle Harriet Strasy, from the Théatre de la Monnaie in Messaline, 1911). He obtained an honorable mention in 1920 (reclining woman, nude study, pastel) and a Silver Medal in 1922 with Indolence (pastel). Finally, he also frequented the Salon des Artistes Marseillais, then that of the Société des Artistes Provençaux. In Marseille, the Cantini Museum preserves several of his works: Le repos, Maison dans un jardin, Mme Maurice Hubert (1914).