Charles Paul Gruppé Portrait Oil Painting, Early 20th Century

Item Details

Charles Paul Gruppé (Canadian/American, 1860 – 1940)
Untitled (portrait of a woman at the beach), early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower right
Inscribed to frame verso “M Davis” and “D V”

Charles Paul Gruppé was born in Canada and relocated to Rochester, New York as a child. He was largely a self-taught artist, and during his young adulthood he moved to Europe to formally pursue his love of art. He remained in Holland for over two decades where he painted with the Hague School and became known for his Dutch landscape scenes. The artist eventually moved back to America at the dawn of World War I with his family, taking an apartment studio at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. He would spend his later years painting scenes of Cape Ann, Massachusetts with his son, painter Emile A. Gruppé.

Condition

- discoloration and accretion to surface; craquelure throughout; canvas has been re-stretched, with tack holes to canvas edges on verso; embrittled canvas with stretcher marks and thinned areas, patch repair with overpainting to upper left; frame rub to painting edges; surface wear and abrasions to frame gilding.

Dimensions

- measurement of frame; visible image measures 19.5" W x 24.75" H.

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Item #

ITMG384271