Thursday, December 30, 2021

Nicolas Sicard (1846–1920), Entrance to the Guillotière Bridge in Lyon, and the Acrobats, and El Circo Gitano all seem to indicate what a damn fine painter he was, and that he liked to include wagons/carriages in his paintings


 this top one looks nearly Trompe Le Oil / photorealistic


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sicard



Born in Lyon in January 1846, Nicolas Sicard was a painter of historical and war scenes, but also of genre scenes, urban and animated landscapes. He showed a real artistic talent and, after classical high school studies, he became the student of Victor Vibert and Danquin at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon.

He started at the Paris Salon in 1869 and became a member of the Salon of the French Artists in 1883. He received a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. In 1891, he received an honorable mention at the Salon. He was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1900.

A prolific painter, he created large-scale works, often for official commissions, such as his paintings decorating the Prefecture of the Rhone in Lyon, where a street still bears his name in his honor. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, one can admire one of his major works "Entrance Bridge Guillotière" dating from 1879.

Watercolorist and orientalist, he travelled to the Middle East where he painted streets, markets and hunting scenes with riders and horses painted in bright colors, like this traditional hawk hunting in southern Morocco.

8 comments:

  1. The detail is great indeed,the flower girl leads the eye
    (with help from the umbrella) into the old lady pushing the cart and cutting off the rearing horse and angry cabdriver behind.
    The child catching a ride on the rear of the centre carriage,
    which is itself cutting off an impatient looking Madame, is really fine work.Thanks.

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    1. you are very welcome. I'm so impressed with the top one's vivid nature, and the middle one's theme and composition... it's not often I make the time to enjoy paintings, but damn, I do love them so much. If you want to see a couple supremely gifted artists works, I recommend Piranesi for his Roman ruins series, and if you then want to see another artists paintings of the Roman ruins, look up Towne, who painted in the late 1770s. I love Maxfield Parrish, and Alphonse Mucha as well. Certainly many others, like Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Godward and Waterhouse, but those don't stand out as much to me, as Piranesi, Mucha, Towne, and Parrish. Of course, Rockwell, and others, have even done so many paintings that I've posted that I've made a tag here on my blog for them

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    2. and Terence Cuneo paintings... I posted about his fantastic paintings at least once

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    3. https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/04/something-to-get-kick-out-of-mouse.html

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  2. Very entertaining,almost like watching a mini-movie,in colour!
    Living free and on the road!Very enjoyable to discover something new to me.

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  3. Very entertaining,almost like watching a mini-movie,in colour!
    Living free and on the road!Very enjoyable to discover something new to me.

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  4. Thanks for bringing this fine artist to your pages. He deserves all of the honors that he received.

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    1. you're very welcome. It's my pleasure and privilege to be able to discover art and artists that are so damn impressive that I can find vehicles in their paintings and feel that they belong on a car guys blog for the amazing carriages, wagons, etc that they show

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