Dominique Antoine MAGAUD (1817-1899) - Lot 325

Dominique Antoine MAGAUD (1817-1899) Charity, 1858 Oil on canvas signed and dated upper left 106 x 85.5 cm Exhibition: Probably exhibited at the Salon de Paris, Palais des Champs Elysées, in 1859. Note: Ferdinand Servian describes the work "Bienfaisance" at the 1859 Salon: "A poorly dressed woman is the object of the solicitude of an adorable child who looks at her with love and tries to read in her eyes the torment that makes them cry". Bibliography: - SERVIAN (Ferdinand), Magaud, l'artiste - le chef d'école - l'homme, Paris, Plon 1908. see quotation p. 30 - SANCHEZ (Pierre) and SEYDOUX (Xavier), Les catalogs des Salons parisiens, VII 1859-1863, L'échelle de Jacob, 2004. From the catalog, p. 252, number 2060: - *Bienfaisance - The Salon catalog for the same year specifies that Dominique Antoine Magaud's Bienfaisance was engraved (lithographed) by Pierre-Charles Vogt.