Comedian Constant Coquelin aka Coquelin ainé in his study
Technique:
Lot n° 145
24cmx29,7cm
EXHIBITED
Société Lorraine des Amis des Arts, Nancy, 1890, n°291 ;
Exposition rétrospective du Centenaire de la Société lorraine des arts, Nancy, 7 October - 12 November 1933, p. 31 ;
Émile Friant, regard sur l'homme et l'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 8 July-4 October 1988, p.75 n°75 ;
Peinture et Art Nouveau, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 24 April -26 July 1999, illustrated in color p.46 illustration 37, n° 19 in the catalogue ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June - 3 September 2006, illustrated n° 73, p.60
LITERATURE
Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, reproduit p.60
CATALOGUE NOTE
The Coquelin brothers, Constant Coquelin (1841-1909) aka Coquelin Aîné, and Ernest Coquelin (1848-1909) aka Coquelin Cadet, renowned comedians, collected works by artists of the second half of the 19th Century, especially Cazin, Dagnan-Bouveret and most of all Friant.
Friant met Constant Coquelin in 1885. From then on, Friant had a new market place : Paris. The next year, the two men traveled to Italy, Tunisia and London. Friant executed a certain number of portrait of Coquelin Aîné.