Marie Caire-Tonoir Large-Scale French Countryside Genre Oil Painting, 1891

Item Details

Marie Caire-Tonoir (French, 1860-1934)
Untitled (french countryside), 1891
Oil painting on canvas
Signed and dated to lower right
Framing label to the verso
Includes catalogue raisonné and biography Jean Caire Maire Tonoir: Une communauté de vie et de peinture

Provenance
Roland Auctions New York, Estates Auction, May 2, 2020, lot# 420.

As a child, Marie Caire-Tonoir attended the same school as the renowned Impressionist Berthe Morisot, and studied under Joseph Guichard and Pierre Miciol. She met her husband Jean Caire in 1887, and together they trained at the
Académie Julian in Paris. Unlike her husband, who preferred to paint en plein air, Caire-Tonoir was a Realist who focused on the female subject in her genre scenes, that often featured women in outdoor and landscape settings. Working at the end of the 19th century, she dealt with the social pressures and challenges of becoming successful woman artist. Throughout her career she exhibited in numerous exhibitions including the 1892 French Salon, where she won a third place medal, competing against almost 200 exhibitors. Marie-Caire was also a member of several prestigious societies including the Société des Artistes Français (the Society of French Artists); l’Union des Femmes peintres, sculpteurs, et graveurs, (The Union of Female Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers); and the Société des Artistes Orientalistes (The Society of Orientalists Artists).

Condition

- severe aging cracks throughout; most notably to the upper portions of the painting resulting in areas of embrittlement; inpainting to the upper right and upper left; drying cracks; stretcher marks to the upper portion and the middle of the canvas; crushed impasto to the bottom portion of the canvas; delamination to the bottom left and right corners; draw to the canvas causing warping; patches to the verso; frame abrasions; large section of missing frame moulding to the lower right; cracks to the frame throughout, particularly to the corners; separation of the frame corners, most extreme to the upper right.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 50.5" H x 34.5" W.

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Item #

ITMG775407