One can almost taste the cuisine in some of these settings, but while there, you visited a Mickey D's??!!! Heh. Great paintings from another accomplished artist. Thanks for the post.
Mark -- The skimpy hotel's French breakfast was 13 euros and McD had a kind of Egg McMuffin +coffee for 2 euros. So I'd hike up the hill for cheaper eats. Elas!! they dropped the item a few years ago, so now I go to a Starbucks for a lesser bargain feed.
December 2, 2016 at 6:35 AM
Not long ago I came across some frothy paintings of elegant women in various Paris settings. By their costumes, the period of those settings is the Belle Époque of the 1890s and early 1900s.
The artist was Victor Guerrier. Various web sites credit those paintings to a Victor Guerrier whose dates are 1893-1968. But there seems to have been another French painter named Victor Guerrier who lived 1858-1953. There is essentially no biographical information about either man.
Given his dates and the Belle Époque settings, it would seem that the earlier Guerrier should have been the artist. The style of the signatures on the paintings hints at that as well. But if all those art auction, etc. websites state that the 1893-1968 Guerrier was the artist, then he would have to have concentrated on the Belle Époque as an artistic faux-sentimentalist, having been a boy in those times.
If anyone knows the truth about this puzzling matter, please let us know in Comments.
Here are some of those paintings.
Gallery
[Image]À la terrasse
[Image]Cafe sociery
This looks to be set just before or after the Great War.
[Image]Élégantes à Paris
By the Luxembourg grounds, the Panthéon in the background. I don't notice the McDonald's I sometimes visit that should be at the far right of the image.
[Image]Femme Élégante
[Image]Flower shopping
Guerrier painted several flower shopping scenes.
[Image]La Brasserie Mollard
[Image]La promenade
Is that the Café de la Paix in the background?
[Image]The Terrace
[Image]Le menu
[Image]Scene on the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne (now the Avenue Foch)
posted by Donald Pittenger at 1:00 AM on Dec 1, 2016
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Close this window Jump to comment formOne can almost taste the cuisine in some of these settings, but while there, you visited a Mickey D's??!!! Heh. Great paintings from another accomplished artist. Thanks for the post.
December 1, 2016 at 5:06 AM
Mark -- The skimpy hotel's French breakfast was 13 euros and McD had a kind of Egg McMuffin +coffee for 2 euros. So I'd hike up the hill for cheaper eats. Elas!! they dropped the item a few years ago, so now I go to a Starbucks for a lesser bargain feed.
December 2, 2016 at 6:35 AM