Marc Bruyas - Bouquet Of Roses In A Vase And Sculpture

Marc BRUYAS Lyon, 1821 - 1896 Oil on canvas 32 x 23 cm (42 x 33 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower left "Bruyas / December 1863" Beautiful carved and gilded wooden frame from the 19th century Marc-Laurent Bruyas is a painter from Lyon who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and was a student of Thierriat and Grobon. He exhibited in Lyon in the 1860s to 1890s and in Paris also from 1863. He was director of the municipal drawing school of Croix Rousse. Our painting dates from 1863. That year Marc Bruyas made his debut at the Paris Salon by exhibiting a very pretty painting that was noted by the critic of the Moniteur des Arts: "Mr. Buyas, from Lyon, made his debut at the Salon with a very good painting: Flowers on the edge of a well (...) this canvas so poetic and so well painted. These flowers attest to an excellent artistic organization, which by following its natural development will effortlessly reach the summit where others have so much difficulty in reaching. " In our painting a bouquet of roses is held in a pretty Empire period vase in porcelain and cameo motif with a small sculpture on the right representing a dog. We can see several symbols in this painting: the portrait of the woman in cameo, the dog turned towards the vase (symbol of fidelity) and the roses in the vase, pink, red and white (symbols of tender, passionate and sincere love).