Victor Gabriel Gilbert
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Victor Gabriel Gilbert | |
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 Waterhouse portrait, 1902. | |
| Born | 13 February 1847 |
| Died | 21 July 1933 (aged 86) |
Victor Gabriel Gilbert (13 February 1847 – 21 July 1933) was a French painter[1] mostly known for his Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there. He studied with Victor Adam (1801–1866) and subsequently with Charles Busson (1822–1908). In 1889 he was awarded a silver medal in the Société des Artistes Français, and a Bonnat prize in 1926 at the end of his career.
- 1873: Salon des artistes français (represented with the paintings Avant le bal' en Les apprêts du diner)[2]
- 1874: Salon des artistes français (Le pot au feu)
- 1875: Salon des artistes français (Portrait de Madame M.)
- 1880: Salon des artistes français;
- 1881: Salon des artistes français;
- 1883: Exposition in Munich;
- 1893: World's Columbian Exposition[3]
- 1894: Exposition in Vienna;
- 1908: Exposition in London
Works in museums
- La Halle aux poissons, le matin (1880, oil on canvas, 181 × 140 cm) in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille;
- Musée Carnavalet, Paris
- Coquelicots dans un champ (attributed to Victor Gilbert, 1880, oil on panel, 26,8 × 35,2 cm) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
- Petit Palais, Paris
- Tentation (1892, photogravure on paper, 18 × 14 cm) in the Musée Goupil, Bordeaux;
- Le Carreau des Halles (1880, 54 × 74 cm) in the Musée Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre;
- La Demoiselle, Huile sur bois (41 × 32 cm) in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Bayeux;
- Marchande de volailles lisant (oil on canvas; 46 × 56 cm) in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art;
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Château de Dieppe, Dieppe
- Un coin des Halles (oil on canvas; 235 × 331 cm) in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
- British Museum, London[4]
- Les Halles le Matin, La Boverie, Liège
- RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island[5]
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau
- Hotel du Louvre
