ƒ NICOLAE GRIGORESCU (1838-1907)
ROMANIAN PEASANT GIRL, CIRCA 1896
Oil on canvas pasted on Isorel
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas laid on masonite; signed lower left
57 X 39 CM - 22 5/8 X 15 3/8 IN.
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Romania
Then by descent to current owner Private collection, USA
RELATED WORKS
Nicolae Grigorescu, Paysanne joyeuse, oil on canvas, 135 x 65 cm, National Art Museum of Romania
Nicolae Grigorescu, Portrait de jeune paysanne, 1896, oil on panel, 31 x 23 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen, inv. 304 BR
"The painter Nicolae Grigorescu was considered, even in his own lifetime, to be the one who knew better than anyone else how to transpose into paint the most characteristic images of the Romanian world. This assessment was part of a series of similar judgments made at the beginning of the 20th century, a period when all European countries were searching for their national identities and particularities. Romania, still the homeland of the peasant, found its ideal representative in Grigorescu. Of peasant origin himself, the painter of lyrical native landscapes and great portraitist of the dazzling, vital Romanian woman was considered by critics and exegetes to be a veritable "national monument", a place that still belongs to him today."
Denia Matescu, "Un air de parenté: l'héritage français dans la peinture de Nicolae Grigorescu" in. Nicolae Grigorescu (1838-1907) Itinéraire d'un peintre roumain de l'école de Barbizon à l'impressionnisme, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen, April 22-August 14, 2006, ed. Somogy, Paris : 2006, p. 15
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