Monkey In A Pewter Dish, 19th Century

This oil on canvas of 80 x 99 cms, depicts a monkey contemplating itself in a pewter dish, in the middle of a floral arrangement. The colors are rich and bright. Old restorations are visible on the back of the painting. Gilded wooden frame. This work is attributed to Adolphe-Louis Caxtex Dégrange, born May 23, 1840 in Marseille, died in 1918. Painter, caricaturist, he produced genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, flowers. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1853, where he followed the courses of Vibert, Reignier and later Louis Guy. He exhibited at the Salon de Lyon, then at the Salon de Paris from 1870. When he settled in Paris in 1876, he worked as a decorative artist and, for three years, as a ceramist. He returned to Lyon in 1884 to succeed Reignier as professor of drawing and floral textile composition. Sources: Documentation from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Tomaselli Collection, Bénézit.