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The Young student

Oil Painting
ca. 1840-1850 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pierre Lacaze (1816-1884) was born in Freiburg. He became a pupil of Ary Scheffer in Paris between 1840 and 1845 but mainly produced landscape and genre paintings.

This painting is a fine example of the little known oeuvre of Pierre Lacaze, a genre and landscape painter. This work can be interpreted as a stock character portrait: it shows a young pupil doing his homework with some manifest reluctance. This type of naïve pictures was quite popular during the 19th century and close to the Biedermeier imagery.

Object details

Category
Object type
TitleThe Young student
Materials and techniques
Oil on millboard
Brief description
Oil Painting, 'The Young Student', Pierre Lacaze, Swiss school, ca. 1840 - 1850
Physical description
A young boy seated at a school desk with an open notebook in front of him and folded sheets of paper; his hat is on the desk, a ball under his chair and a hoop on the floor.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 31cm
  • Estimate width: 24.4cm
Dimensions taken from C.M. Kauffmann, Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Lacaze (signed lower right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend
Object history
Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, listed in the 1868 post-mortem register of the contents of his villa in Lausanne (V&A R/F MA/1/T1181) as 'Oil on millboard. An offer of marriage (Savoy). By Adrian Kunkler. In frame. Signed. Swiss. Dated 1855'; bequeathed by Rev. Chauncey Hare Townshend, 1868.

Historical significance: This painting was bequeathed by the Rev. Townshend who owned a large collection of 19th-century landscape and genre paintings. It is not unlikely that Townshend, who resided part of the year in Lausanne, acquired this painting directly from the artist.
The museum of Freiburg owns several of his works.
Subjects depicted
Summary
Pierre Lacaze (1816-1884) was born in Freiburg. He became a pupil of Ary Scheffer in Paris between 1840 and 1845 but mainly produced landscape and genre paintings.

This painting is a fine example of the little known oeuvre of Pierre Lacaze, a genre and landscape painter. This work can be interpreted as a stock character portrait: it shows a young pupil doing his homework with some manifest reluctance. This type of naïve pictures was quite popular during the 19th century and close to the Biedermeier imagery.
Bibliographic reference
Kauffmann, C.M. Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, II. 1800-1900 , London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973, pp. 59-60, cat. no. 130.
Collection
Accession number
1615-1869

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Record createdJuly 6, 2006
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