Victor François Eloi BIENNOURY (Bar sur... - Lot 125 - Oger - Blanchet

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Victor François Eloi BIENNOURY (Bar sur... - Lot 125 - Oger - Blanchet
Victor François Eloi BIENNOURY (Bar sur Aube 1823 - Paris 1893) Study of a woman with her back to Salmacis Black pencil 33 x 48 cm Signed, located and dated lower right Biennoury / Rome 1844 Our drawing is a preparatory study for the painting Salmacis dated 1845, kept in the Museum of Art and History of Chaumont. The story of the nymph Salmacis appears only in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, she would have been in love with Hermaphrodite. Pupil of Martin Drolling and boarder at the French Academy in Rome, Biennoury was mainly a history painter and portraitist. He received numerous official commissions for the Tuileries, the Louvre and Parisian churches.
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