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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (1873-1965), Launch of the Argo, 1889

Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (1873-1965)

Launch of the Argo, 1889
Oil on canvas
271 x 550 cm
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  • Launch of the Argo

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium, until discovered in 2021.

Exhibitions

Salon, Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, 1890, n. 2342 (as Le lancement d’«Argo»). Awarded a Mention honorable.

Literature

H. Fouquer, ‘Salon de 1890’, in Salon Illustré, 1890, p. 6;

E. Hoschedé, Brelan de Salons. Inter artes et naturam, Paris 1890, p. 77;

Courrier de l’art: chronique hebdomadaire de…, X, n. 18, 2 May 1890, p. 141;

‘Les Salons de 1890. I, La peinture aux Champs-Élysées’, in Revue des deux Mondes, LX, 1890, p. 654;

‘The Two Salons at Paris’, in The Builder, LVIII, May 24 1890, p. 367;

P. Chassanigne de Néronde, ‘Salon de 1890. Le peintres étrangers au Palais de l’Industrie’, in Revue Française. De l’étranger et des colonies et exploration gazette géographique, XI, 1890, p. 598;

A. Lemercier, ‘Variétés. Alpinistes et Alpinisme aux Expositions artistiques de 1890’, in Bulletin. Club Alpin Français, 1890, p. 143;

K. M. J. Lybáert, ‘Driejaarlijksche. Tentoonstelling van schoone kunsten in het Casino te Gent’, Het Belfort. Maandschrift gewijd aan letteren, kunst en wetenschap, VII, 1892, pp. 187-188;

V. Pica, ‘Artisti contemporanei: Jules Van Biesbroeck’, in L’Emporium, XIX, 112, aprile 1904,

p. 264;

F. Hellens, ‘Jules Van Biesbroeck. Peintre et sculpteur’, in L'Idée Libre, 1904, nr. 5-6, May-June, pp. 326-338;

F. Arnaudiés, J. Van Biesbroeck. Peintre et sculpteur, Alger 1931;

‘Les débuts de Jules van Biesbroeck’, in France-Afrique. Litéraire, artistique et scientifique, I, n. 2, March 1931, pp. 1-2;

L. Scardino (ed. by), Jules Van Biesbroeck (1873 – 1965), exhibition catalogue, Ferrara 1991;

G. Barbera (ed. by), Jules van Biesbroeck. Un fiammingo a Palermo nel primo Novecento, exhibition catalogue, Palermo 2015;

L. Peruzzi, L. Rivi (ed. by), Jules Van Biesbroeck. L’anima delle cose, exhibition catalogue, Modena 2020.

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