Charles De Condamy "polo Player" Watercolor Circa 1900

Charles de Condamy "Polo Player" Caricature and humorous watercolor around 1900 Good condition, framed with a painted wooden strip of 40.5 x 50 cm, 23.5 x 31 cm on sight, signed lower right Charles César Fernand de Condamy (Gamaches, June 27, 18471 - Nice, March 3, 19132) is a French painter and watercolorist, specialist in the animal genre, notably horses and hunting scenes, he is a student of Barrias. He exhibited at the Salon from 1878 to 1882. He was appreciated by a European aristocratic clientele. His representations of dogs, hunts and steeple chases are often included in magazines such as Le Soleil du Dimanche and distributed as engravings. He created a hunting team in 1875, the Rallye Picardie, at the Château d'Avesnes (Avesnes-Chaussoy, Somme), which hunted hare and then wild boar. He was lieutenant of wolf hunting for the district of Amiens.