Artists Mathias Schiff and Camille Martin sitting in the countryside (Le repos des artistes)

Lot n° 140
32,5cmx40,5cm

EXHIBITED

De Charles de Meixmoron à Etienne Cournault. Rétrospective 1892 - 1950, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 18 January - 18 April 1993, acoording to a label on the reverse (probably out of catalogue, extra) ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June-3 September 2006, illustrated n°6, p.48 ; 
Camille Martin. Le sentiment de la nature, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, 26 mars - 29 août 2010, n°3, illustrated p. 55 in the catalogue

LITERATURE

Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p.23

CATALOGUE NOTE

Friant depicts two of his close friends resting in the countryside near Nancy : Camille Martin (1861-1898), who studied with him in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, and Mathias Schiff (1862-1886), painter and sculptor who died prematurely. 
Our painting was executed in 1880, when Friant shows interest in landscape and plein air painting. He then executes a series of landscape painted live, in the city or in the suburbs, counting this work and the lots 137 and 138.