Lot 136: EMILE FRIANT | The frugal meal

Oil on panel

29,5 x 37,5 cm ; 11 3/4 by 14 3/4 in.

Oil on panel

- two traces of dirt in the upper right - under UV light, very thin scratch in the upper left. Perfect condition.
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Musée de Nancy, 1894 ;
Salon de la société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1894, n°476 ;
Salon de Nancy, Nancy, 31st October - 2 December 1894 ;
Salon de la Société des Amis des Arts, Nantes, 1st February -1st March 1895, n°151 ;
Salon de la société Lorraine des Amis des Arts, Nancy, 1909, n°8 ;
Rétrospective des meilleures oeuvres d'artistes lorrains récompensés aux Salons parisiens, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 1909 ;
Les Pompiers, 1ère exposition, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1912, n°30 ;
Probably, Exposicion de pintura francesa contemporanea 1870-1918, Madrid, 1918, n°80 ;
Salon de la Société des Artistes français, Paris, 1921, n°829 (belonging to Louis Corbin) ;
Émile Friant, regard sur l'homme et l'œuvre, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 8 July - 4 October 1988, illustrated in color p.40 n°16, described p.9 and p.13 ;
De Charles de Meixmoron à Etienne Cournault. Rétrospective 1892 - 1950, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 18 January - 18 April 1993, n°18 ;
Collecting in the Gilded Age, Art patronage in Pittsburgh 1890-1910, The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 6 April - 29 June 1997, n° 92, illustrated p. 255;
Emile Friant un nouveau regard, Musée Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 10 June - 3 September 2006, illustrated n°95, p.64 ;
Emile Friant, le dernier naturaliste ?, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 4 November 2016 - 27 February 2017, n°55a, illustrated p. 123.

Maurice Garçot, "Emile Friant", in Revue Lorraine Illustrée, Nancy, Imprimeries Réunies, 1931, mentionned p. 76 ;
Arsène Alexandre, Emile Friant et son oeuvre, Nancy, 1946, described p.19-20, illustrated pl.VII ;
Henri Claude, Friant, Vaux, 2005, illustrated p.104 and a detail p.105 ;
Exhibition catalogue, A l'épreuve du réel, Les peintres et la photographie au XIXe siècle, Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans, 30 June - 1st October 2012, illustrated p. 131

C. Coquelin Collection ;
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 June 1906, n° 42 (illustrated) ;
Purchased at the above by Louis Corbin ;
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 & 20 October 1936, lot 89 ;
Purchased from the above by the current owner's grandfather