[BEAUX-ARTS] [PARIS]

Small archive of a student in the workshop of William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier at the Académie Julian.

[Paris, 1897-1900]

Two signed original drawings (250 x 210 mm and 190 x 130 mm), 3 printed final versions of these drawings (180 x 145 mm and 185 x 120 mm), 5 invitations to studio balls (250 x 160 mm to 110 x 170 mm), 3 studio silver photographs (170 x 125 mm), a portrait of William Bouguereau (? ) (210 x 180 mm), all in an envelope addressed to “Madame Gilbert, 55 rue Diderot, Vincennes” (270 x 340 mm); pinholes and tarnish, snags to photographs.

Interesting set around the artist “C. Gilbert”, in all likelihood a pupil of William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier's studio at the Academie Julian in Paris, close to the Beaux-Arts and other Parisian studios.

This archive includes:

• The original ink drawing for the Bouguereau & Ferrier workshop's annual banquet menu. Signed C. Gilbert and dated 1898. With two copies of the final printed menu, one of which has been posted.
• The original drawing and a printed copy of a menu, probably for a fencing circle. Signed C. Gilbert and dated 1898.
• 4 admission cards for the Bal des Quat'z'arts from 1897 to 1900, including 3 stamped by the atelier W. Bouguereau & G. Ferrier (illustrations by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, Camille Boignard and Alphonse Mucha) with two nominatives for Gilbert, and one for a woman (1898, illustrated by Charles Léandre).
• An invitation to the Bal des ateliers Rodolphe in 1900. The Bal Rodolphe is the ball organized by the students of the Académie Julian.
• An invitation to the Staiger studio.
• 3 photographs of studio interiors.
• A portrait, probably of William Bouguereau.

Interesting archive of a student at the famous Académie Julian, founded in 1866 by painter Rodolphe Julian. At the time, this private school of painting and sculpture was the only one to teach women and foreigners. It trained illustrious pupils such as Alphonse Mucha, Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Edouard Vuillard. Twenty-six Prix de Rome winners between 1880 and 1936 passed through the Académie Julian.

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