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EDMOND ALPHONSE ANDRE (1837 – 1877)
A very beautiful large signed and dated 1873 oil on original canvas by the rareFfrench genre painter Edmond Andre. The painter was a pupil of Isidore ils and exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1867 until his untimely early death at the age of 40. His body of work is very small due to his early death. His work was received with great reception at the Paris Salon of 1875 and sadly he died just a few years later at the height of his career. His work is held in numrous museums.
This work depicts an amorous soldier flirting with a mans wife as the man sits staring out at his garden whsilt they take lunch. In its original frame and unlined and unrestored.
Title: “Figures in a garden”
Signature:Signed lower right and dated 1873
Medium: Oil on canvas
Provenance: Private French collection
Size: c. 18 x 13 inches unframed / 28 x 23 inches framed
Condition: Unrestored original condition
French, 19th century, male.
Born 1837; died 24 April 1877, in Algeria.
Painter, engraver. Military subjects, genre scenes, seascapes, landscapes.
Son and pupil of the landscape painter Jules André, the first painter to be employed at the Sèvres porcelain factory, Edmond André studied in Paris under Isidore Pils, and exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1867, most notably in 1875. Meticulous almost to a fault when painting military figures and scenes, he demonstrates a much more fluid and free touch in his landscape and seascape work. He also produced engraved blocks of costumes, menus and programmes.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Chalon-sur-Saône: Bird-Catchers
Glasgow: Awaiting Orders
Sheffield: Introduction
Auction Records
Paris, 12 March 1943: Interesting Reading, FRF 500












