Horse Portrait Attributed To Ernest Jean Delahaye.

This very pretty horse portrait shows us the animal three-quarters back, saddled and bridled, ready to saddle up its rider. Ernest Jean Delahaye was born in Paris in 1855, he died in 1921 in this same city, painter of portraits, genre scenes, urban landscape, he was painter of the Army. Pupil of Pils and Gérome at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he participated in the Paris Salon from 1879 to 1920, he received a third class medal in 1882, a second class medal in 1884 as well as a silver medal in the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He left on a mission in 1915 for the Army Museum, he spent a year in Flanders. Various museums preserve his works, the Museum of Art and History of Clamecy, the Carnavalet Museum, the Petit Palais, as well as the Museum of the History of France in Versailles. This oil on panel is attributed to Jean Ernest Delahaye. Dimensions of the panel 24 cm x 34 cm. Dimensions of the frame 33 cm x 44 cm.