Reading in the living room

Guillaume Larrue

1851 – 1935

Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm in a frame 92 x 78 cm circa 1900 Artist from Bordeaux , a student of Cabanel and regular exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Français of which he was a member, was familiar with interior scenes, a pretext for varied lighting effects, the extraordinary “In Front of the Grand Sphinx at the Louvre Museum” being one of them. remarkable example. Our painting is no exception to the rule, showing us a woman immersed in her reading in a corner of a bourgeois living room with numerous paintings and earthenware hanging on the walls, the open door opening onto an entrance bathed in light. Do not hesitate to ask us for photos or additional information by email or telephone. In partnership with Galerie Lafouresse, we are specialists in paintings on the Basque Country, the Landes and the Arcachon Basin.