Isnard Jean-roch (1845-1890) "place Of The Grande Fontaine At Salon De Provence 1877" Arles Aix

ISNARD Jean-Roch (1845 - 1890)

"Place de la Grande Fontaine at Salon de Provence, 1877"

Oil on canvas (without frame) on panel,
Monogrammed bottom right,

Beautiful work of the Arlesian painter, Jean-Roch Isnard who represents a lively view of the Place de la Grande Fontaine at Salon de Provence.
This work was made in June 1877 by the artist while living in Salon de Provence. The work has been painted, in situ, on the spot, in front of the door of his friend: the Croustillat Félibre where the artist installs without easel.

Born in Arles in 1845, Jean Roch Isnard was very early attracted to painting. In 1854, his family left Arles to settle in Marseille where he became a student of the painter Emmanuel Coulange-Lautrec. He exhibited his first paintings in 1862 at Salon Marseillais and made decorations for Marseille businesses.
In 1867, the family moved back to Arles, a grant from the city allows the artist to go to take courses at the Beaux Arts of the city of Paris, in the studio of Jean-Leon Jerome.

Bulletin of the Friends of Old Arles, Special Issue 96 of June 1997 "The Arlesian painter Jean-Roch ISNARD (1845-1890)"

Excerpt from page 19 and 21: "On the following January 24, the marriage of Jean Roch Isnard, thirty and one year old and Marguerite Louise Grangeon, twenty years old, in Arles is the occasion of the recognition by the two spouses of a child named Jean Baptiste, born March 25, 1876 in Arles (recognized by the mother on September 7, 1876 ). As one could imagine after the constitution of the Respectful Act, the mother of the husband will not be present at the ceremony. After the wedding, the couple moved to Salon de Provence, rue d'Avignon where the death of Jean Baptiste will experience the couple on April 6, 1877.

"During the month of June 1877, Jean Roch Isnard comes every afternoon to install his easel near the door of Félibre Crousillat and painted the mossy fountain, a canvas that he plans to present at the Paris exhibition of 1878. Among the strollers who admire the work of the artist, the Crousillat Félibre.

This will be the beginning of the friendship between the two men. The famous poet will go so far as to consecrate the painter by a poem dated June 1877, which will be included in his famous collection "L'Eissame" (39)

Jean Roch Isnard and his family leave Salon de Provence at the beginning of the year 1880, for the hamlet of Mas Thibert where resides the mother of his wife. Before leaving the city, he made a portrait of Félibre Antoine Blaise Crousillat that he took with him. »

Size: 33 x 50 cm without its frame and 45 x 60 cm with its carved and gilded wooden frame.

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At this moment:
Exhibition from June 1st to August 10th, 2018 "The Masters of Provence, The South of France by painters" Chapelle Notre Dame de Pitité, Av Durand Maillane, 13210 Saint-Remy-de-Provence