Lot 165: JEAN-JOSEPH-XAVIER BIDAULD (CARPENTRAS 1758-1846 MONTMORENCY) An Alpine landscape wit

JEAN-JOSEPH-XAVIER BIDAULD (CARPENTRAS 1758-1846 MONTMORENCY) An Alpine landscape with fgures bathing and fshermen in their boats nearby oil on canvas 15 7/8 x 20 3/4 in. (40.4 x 52.8 cm.)

PROVENANCE:: [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2000, lot 85. George Magan, Castle Town House, County Kilkenny, no. 292 (according to labels on the reverse). Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld was the frst landscape painter to be admitted to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, in 1823. His works, which were avidly sought by important patrons, among them King Louis XVIII, epitomize Neoclassical landscape painting in the rigorous compositional order of his bucolic subjects. This painting probably derives from a study made directly from nature. The diminutive fgures may be by one of the many artists, including Guillaume Lethière, Carle Vernet, François Gérard and Louis-Léopold Boilly, with whom Bidauld is known to have collaborated.