Lot 387: f - Jacques-Victor-Eugène Froment-Delormel French, 1820-1900 , Enfants jouant sur les rives du Rio Plate oil on canvas

signed Froment D l.l. oil on canvas

42.5 by 155.5cm., 16¾ by 61¼in.

Paris, Salon de 1853 , no. 499

Bellier-Auvray, Dictionnaire des peintres de l'école française, vol. I, 1882, p. 594

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 12 October 1994, lot 56
Purchased by the present owner at the above sale

PROPERTY FROM AN AUSTRALIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
The subject of Froment-Delormel's painting and the appearance of native American genre in 19th Century European art in general was almost certainly spurred by American painter and chronicler George Catlin's 'Indian Gallery', whose European tour reached Paris in 1845. The collection of over 500 paintings and artefacts, which Catlin painted and amassed while living among indigenous communities in the 1830s, met with huge interest and acclaim among artists and the general public alike.