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Benedict MASSON 1819-1893

Benedict MASSON 1819-1893


Reference : A0923-0122
Price : 7 500 €

Benedict MASSON 1819-1893 "family portrait in Naples Italy" oil on canvas signed lower right, frame in gilded stucco XIX sun: 121x102cm
Bénédicte Masson was born in Sombernon near Dijon on 23 April 1819 and died in Paris on 26 June 1893. He is a painter of history, mythological compositions, allegorical subjects, scenes of genre, portraits, flowers, Of wall compositions. He is a pupil of Lyons Paul Chenavart and especially Paul Delaroche to whom he undoubtedly owes his training as a painter of civil and religious history. Of this painter still very unknown, it is known that he appeared almost every year at the Salon, from 1840 to 1881 and was chosen under the Second Empire to make a great wall composition for the Hotel des Invalides, illustrating the century of Charlemagne.


Dimensions :
Width : 39 inch, Height : 31 inch, height frame : 40 inch, Largeur cadre : 48 inch
Benedict MASSON 1819-1893