Description:

Francois Marius Granet (French, 1775-1840), 5 Figures in an Interior, 1821, Oil on Canvas, signed 'F. Marius Granet a Rome, 1821' lower left, depicting a dark window lit interior with monks and nuns and a guard with spear on the staircase in the background, with Sotheby's inventory label on verso, in a yellow velvet mat and giltwood frame. Frame size: 32 1/2 in. x 27 in.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, François-Marius Granet studied in the 1790s with Jean-Antoine Constantin and Jacques-Louis David, before travelling briefly to Rome in 1802. He returned to Italy and spent a further 21 years there as a member of a community of French artists, which included Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, François-Xavier Fabre, Pierre-Athanase Chauvin and Nicolas-Didier Boguet. He was famous for his paintings of church and convent interiors. In 1824 Granet went back France to become a curator at the Louvre. He was later director of the Museum of French History at Versailles, a post he kept until the Revolution of 1848. He bequeathed to the town of Aix his own collection, which is now housed in the Musée Granet. (nationalgallery.org.uk)

Measurements: Height: by sight 23 1/2 in. x Width: 18 1/2 in. x Depth:

Condition:

Overall good restored condition, relined, with obscuring varnish, some small areas of inpainting visible throughout, craquelure, wear to frame.

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