Oil on canvas, The umbrella salesman by Edouard John MENTA
Oil on canvas, The umbrella salesman by Edouard John MENTA
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Edouard MENTA 1858-1915
dated 1893
Very large canvas -
Dimensions with frame: 180-111 cm
Swiss painter of genre scenes and portraits.
After training with landscape artist Barthélemy Menn, Menta made his debut in 1874 at an exhibition in Geneva, and participated in regular exhibitions in France.
From 1880, he moved to Nice, where he produced landscapes and numerous portraits and genre paintings, before returning to Geneva, where he died.
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| Dimensions | 111 × 180 cm |
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Menta is a multi-talented painter.
Capable of painting impressionist landscapes, interiors with elegant women such as James Tissot and large-scale pictures of shopkeepers, his work is a simple poetry of everyday life.
This almost picturesque depiction of an umbrella salesman busy repairing an umbrella takes us back to another time.
And so we pause to take in all the details the painter offers us.
In this street, at the entrance to a house, with goldfish on one side and a little canary on the other, a mother hen and her chicks, all witnesses to a man with a smile that warms the heart.
Here, the artist demonstrates
his innate sense of detail: the beauty of plants
his talent as a colorist: the red umbrella against the dark background of the store
and his mastery of staging.
