Jean-Pierre LAYS (1827-1885)

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Jean-Pierre LAYS (1827-1885)
Still life with harp, musical instruments, and rose bush Original canvas. Signed lower left Lays and dated 1869. Old restorations. Original frame in wood and gilded stucco. 184 x 125 cm History : - Probably the painting exhibited at the Salon of 1870 in Paris, n°1625 : "Après le concert", - Salon of the Universal and International Exhibition of Lyon, 1872, - Galerie Charles Dussere in Lyon in October 1888. Bibliography : - Adèle Souchier, Une visite à l'Exposition Universelle de 1872, Revue du Lyonnais, série 3 - n°14, p. 242, - Aimé Vingtrinier, Lays, peintre de fleurs, Lyon, éditeur H. Georg, 1889, p. 80 This author indicates that this painting and the following one seem to have been put together by a wealthy amateur at the end of the 19th century. He writes: "Hardly has the illustrious artist died and already his works have increased in value fivefold. In the course of October 1888, a painting: La Harpe aux fleurs, height 2 metres, width 1 metre 25, exhibited by the house of Dusserre, was quoted at ten thousand francs. A few weeks later, another even more beautiful painting, Good and Evil, which we have spoken of several times, which the artist had not wanted to sell for four thousand francs and which he had (then) kept, had taken its place in the same showcases and was attracting crowds at the corner of the Place des Terreaux. Its price was such that it could only tempt one of those happy millionaires who do not know what to do with their fortune. Like François Millet (sic), who had so much trouble making a living and whose paintings now fetch dizzying prices.
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