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Dallas, TX 75261-6199
Street Address:2801 W. Airport Freeway
Dallas, Texas 75261-4127
(Northwest corner of W. Airport Freeway [HWY-183] & Valley View Lane)
Auction Name: 2025 November 18 Fine European Art Signature® Auction
Lot Number: 69048
Shortcut to Lot: HA.com/8223*69048
Paul Chaigneau (French, 1879-1938)
Le berger et son troupeau
Oil on painter's palette
12-3/4 x 15-3/4 inches (32.4 x 40.0 cm) (oval)
Signed lower right: Paul Chaigneau
Property from a Dallas Collection
PROVENANCE:
Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills, California;
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2014.
By the late nineteenth century, the palette was emblematic of the artist's process. While some palette paintings were done to use up leftover pigment, others, like Paul Chaigneau's, were fully realized scenes-here a pastoral subject for which he is best known. In an era when painters frequently became celebrities, the palette painting served as a proclamation of the artist's reputation, displaying his favored subject and refined technique directly on the "tool of his trade." These palettes were often gifts to a friend, patron, or fellow artist; they rarely appear in dealer's ledgers or galleries of the period. Rather, they are "collector's items" that elevate an artist's renown, a work of art and a souvenir of its creation (see T. van Druten, "Making and Creating, The Painted Palette in Late Nineteenth-Century Dutch Painting," Studio Matters: Materials, Instruments and Artistic Processes, M. Wagner, ed., Amsterdam, 2013).
Condition Report*:
On stable wooden painter's palette support. Slight yellowing to the varnish layer. Extremely faint, finely patterned craquelure. Minor surface dust. Not examined out of frame.
Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. A few scattered small dots and dashes of finely applied retouching.
Framed Dimensions 29 X 32 X 3.25 Inches
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All lots are sold "AS IS" under the Terms & Conditions of Auction.Under UV: varnish fluoresces green unevenly. A few scattered small dots and dashes of finely applied retouching.
Framed Dimensions 29 X 32 X 3.25 Inches
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