Name: JEAN BÉRAUD (FRENCH, 1849-1936)
Brand: Scène de rue Parisienne
Price: 80000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

JEAN BÉRAUD (FRENCH, 1849-1936)
Scène de rue Parisienne
signed 'Jean Béraud' (lower right)
oil on panel
14⁵⁄₈ x 21¹⁄₂ in. (37.2 x 55 cm.)
Painted circa late 1897-early 1898.

M. Tannenbaum sale; Mendelssohn Hall, New York 1 March 1906, lot 24, as On the boulevards.
Mitchell collection.
Private collection, North America.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 23 February 1989, no. 112 as Une Avenue Parisienne.

P. Offenstadt, Jean Béraud 1849-1935, The Belle Époque: A Dream of Times Gone By, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1999, pp. 134, 362, illustrated p. 120, no. 72.

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As Patrick Offenstadt observes, the scene is set in front of the Café Américain. On the Morris column, one can make out Passe; this is the playbill for Le Passé, a comedy by M. Porto-Riche which premiered on December 30, 1897 at the Odéon. Other playbills advertise the premiere on 12 November 1897 of Massenet's comic opera Sapho (based on Alphonse Daudet's novel of that name) and Fragson, a French singer (real name Léon Pot), who appeared at the Folies-Bergère.