Jean Béraud - Le Parc Monceau [1887]

Known for hastily sketching Parisian people and places from a hansom cab, Jean Béraud often depicted anonymous city dwellers going about their daily business. What is remarkable about the present work is that the main subject is not a nameless flâneur in the crowd but Béraud’s close friend, Monsieur Antoine-May, who is shown walking his sons home from school. Antoine-May, dressed fashionably in a top hat with umbrella in hand, follows closely behind the smartly dressed boys as they traipse across the rain soaked pavement.

 

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on panel, 22.2 x 32.7 cm]

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