SELECTION BY TOPIC : ADELE FERRAND
The Adele Ferrand collection
The Leon-Dierx art gallery first acquired Adele Ferrand’s piece of work in 1911, during the campaign to build up the gallery’s collections, before it opened in 1912.
Ten years later, in 1922, Herve Le Coat de Kerveguen, Adele Ferrand’s only son, bequeathed to the Leon-Dierx art gallery all of his mother’s piece of work in his possession.
The Adele Ferrand collection
The Leon-Dierx art gallery first acquired Adele Ferrand’s piece of work in 1911, during the campaign to build up the gallery’s collections, before it opened in 1912.
Ten years later, in 1922, Herve Le Coat de Kerveguen, Adele Ferrand’s only son, bequeathed to the Leon-Dierx art gallery all of his mother’s piece of work in his possession.
Adele Ferrand, portrait painter
Hundreds of other artists like Adele Ferrand painted on commission for clients form the aristocracy or bourgeoisie, who considered it fashionable to hang family portraits in the living room.
Adele Ferrand’s portraits in the Leon-Dierx art gallery are necessarily those of her own family or very close friends, the others having remained with the commissioners.
Adele Ferrand, portrait painter
Hundreds of other artists like Adele Ferrand painted on commission for clients form the aristocracy or bourgeoisie, who considered it fashionable to hang family portraits in the living room.
Adele Ferrand’s portraits in the Leon-Dierx art gallery are necessarily those of her own family or very close friends, the others having remained with the commissioners.
Adele Ferrand, genre painter
Following the tradition initiated by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Nicolas Lancret, Adele Ferrand specialised in genre painting.
These charming, familiar little anecdotal scenes of family life, painted with realism on a small format, absolutely reflected the tastes of private collectors living in bourgeois apartments during the 19th century.
Adele Ferrand, genre painter
Following the tradition initiated by Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Nicolas Lancret, Adele Ferrand specialised in genre painting.
These charming, familiar little anecdotal scenes of family life, painted with realism on a small format, absolutely reflected the tastes of private collectors living in bourgeois apartments during the 19th century.
