Joseph Porphyre PINCHON (1871-1953) - Lot 16

Joseph Porphyre PINCHON (1871-1953) Élégante à la suite en chasse à courre dans la forêt forêt de Villers, 1900 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right. 88 x 128 cm Small chips in the lower part. Émile Joseph Porphyre Pinchon (1871-1953) French painter and illustrator, best known for his creation of the Bécassine character in 1905, Joseph before his career as an illustrator, Joseph Porphyre Pinchon career as an illustrator, his pictorial output was closer to impressionism. Trained by Fernand Cormon and Albert Besnard, he made a name for himself as a specialist animal painting. Between 1897 and 1898, he exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes français, and in 1899, he joined the joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. This hunting painting demonstrates Pinchon's mastery mastery of this theme, which he continued to explore throughout his life. This is the boldness of the composition: the standing man back in the foreground, immediately catches the eye. the eye. This posture, a kind of "absent gaze" of the figure evokes the spirit of many of Gustave Caillebotte's works by Gustave Caillebotte, such as L'Homme au Balcon Balcony, and gives the painting a depth that echoes echoes modern art, while retaining an impressionist impressionist touch.