La vallée de Courtry (Seine-et-Marne)

Name: ALEXANDRE SÉGÉ (FRENCH, 1818-1885)
Brand: La vallée de Courtry (Seine-et-Marne)
Price: 11000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 13,750

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Closed: 10 Dec 2020

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ALEXANDRE SÉGÉ (FRENCH, 1818-1885)

La vallée de Courtry (Seine-et-Marne)

Price Realised GBP 13,750

Closed: 10 Dec 2020

Price Realised GBP 13,750

Closed: 10 Dec 2020

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ALEXANDRE SÉGÉ (FRENCH, 1818-1885)
La vallée de Courtry (Seine-et-Marne)
signed 'A.Sege' (lower right)
oil on canvas
51³⁄₄ x 79 in. (131.5 x 200.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1879.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1998, lot 121 ($101,500)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

'Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, exposés au Palais des Champs-Elysées le 12 mai 1879,' 1ére ed., Paris, 1879, p. 230.
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 9, p. 501.
E. Bellier de La Chavignerie, L. Auvray, Dictionnaire géneral des artistes de l'école francaise, depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'a nos jours, vol. IV, New York, 1979, p. 490, no. S.1879, as: `La vallée de Courtry (Seine-et-Marne)'.

Paris, Salon, 1879, no. 2755.

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Lot Essay

Exhibited in the of 1879, the present painting is an example of the type of idealizing landscape that became increasingly popular toward the second half of the 19th century. As the contemporary landscape became increasingly marked by deforestation, the rise of factories and a move away from agrarian life, late nineteenth century taste shifted toward images of simplicity and wholesomeness as reassurance against the rapidly accelerating pace of modernity. Ségé's tranquil vista, with the warm summer sun shining down on the unspoiled fields, and wildflowers in full bloom in the foreground, appeals to exactly this sensibility. The single figure of a peasant, dwarfed by the enormity of the landscape and the vast sky, creates a sense of quiet serenity, and must have allowed visitors to that year’s to harken back to simpler times.