Hunting Scene; Mural design for a lunette in the library of the Chateau de Lude (Sarthe)

Hunting Scene; Mural design for a lunette in the library of the Chateau de Lude (Sarthe) by Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet

Medium

Oil paint on canvas

Dimensions

Overall: 10 3/8 x 14 13/16 in. (26.3 x 37.7 cm) image: 5 1/8 x 12 1/16 in. (13 x 30.6 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Dodge Fund, 1967

Accession Number

67.827.131

Tags

MuralsMenHuntingDogsHorses

About the Artist

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise|Eugène-Pierre Gourdet · 18971897

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, born Jules Lachaise on September 2, 1836, in Paris, emerged as a prominent French painter and draughtsman specializing in lavish interior decorations during the Second Empire and beyond. Little is known about his early life and formal training, though he married Berthe Gourdet in 1866, forging a close professional partnership with her brother, the decorator Eugène-Pi...

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