Guarisco Gallery 2012

10 August Raynaud was a popular 19 th -century genre and portrait painter. Born in Lyon, Raynaud moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-arts. He began exhibiting at the Salon in 1877 and continued until his death in 1887. n example par excellence of a Russian émigré artist, Alexei Harlamoff trained in the European Academic style at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the École des Beaux-arts in Paris. Harlamoff’s style is a particularly fine and representative example of the Academic tradition that he encountered at both schools. The composition is perfectly balanced with the figure in the center of the painting. The colors have been blended to provide a rich range of tones and applied in multiple layers for greater richness and luminosity. Among the artist’s favorite subjects were figurative works depicting beautiful young girls. Alexei Harlamoff (right) Russian, 1842-1915 Auguste Raynaud (Fr., 1845-1887) The Model’s Moment, signed, o/c, 18 3/8” x 22” (28-1/2” x 32-1/4” fr.) cademically trained artists painted in their studios or the studios of renowned painters like William Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérome. In The Model’s Moment one gets a glimpse of the artist’s own studio and the collection of props used in composing his pictures including plaster casts, Oriental objects, costumes, and works in progress. This view of the artist at work is vastly different from the way in which the plein air, or out-of- doors, Impressionist painters worked. A A