Maternal tenderness (Tendresse maternelle)
Technique:
Lot n° 142
61,5cmx44cm
EXHIBITED
Salon de la Société lorraine des Amis des Arts, Nancy, 1906, n°90 ;
Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907, n°471 ;
Les Pompiers, 1ère exposition, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1912, n°31 (belonging to M. E. Le Roy et Cie) ;
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, illustrated p. 86 n°99 ;
Collecting in the Gilded Age, Art patronage in Pittsburgh 1890-1910, The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 6 April - 29 June 1997, n° 93, p. 256 illustrated ;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June -3 September 2006, illustrated n°87, p. 63 and on the cover
LITERATURE
Maurice Garçot, "Emile Friant", in Revue Lorraine Illustrée, Nancy, Imprimeries Réunies, 1931, mentionned p. 78 ;
Collectif des amis d'Émile Friant, Émile Friant 1863-1932, Les discours sur la tombe d'Émile Friant, 1933, mentionned p. 91 ;
Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated in full page p.148
CATALOGUE NOTE
Friant's works count few subjects dedicated to children, except for his prints (see lot 139). At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, he executes a few works showing a mother with her child, like Mother and child playing violin (1908, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy).