Théodore CARUELLE D'ALIGNY (Chantenay-Saint-Imbert 1798 - Ly - Lot 232

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Théodore CARUELLE D'ALIGNY (Chantenay-Saint-Imbert 1798 - Ly - Lot 232
Théodore CARUELLE D'ALIGNY (Chantenay-Saint-Imbert 1798 - Lyon 1871) Fishermen by a boat, probably in the park of Mortefontaine Oak panel, one board, not parqueted 29.1 x 43.5 cm The Musée de Clamecy holds a preparatory drawing (Au bord de l'eau, cf. Aubrun, Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny, 1798-1871, catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre peint, dessiné, gravé, 1988, n° D. 704, p. 404, repr.). A student of Jean-Baptiste Regnault and Louis Étienne Watelet, Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny went to Italy from 1824 to 1827, where he met Camille Corot. He then exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1827 onwards, returned to Italy from 1834 to 1836, and in 1843 left for Greece to produce a series of drawings of the main ancient sites commissioned by the École des beaux-arts. He is known as one of the precursors of the Barbizon School, a village he discovered in the 1820s.
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