François-Barthélemy-Marius Abel (Marseille, 1832 - Paris, 1870), Scene with spinner, oil on canvas, unframed 91 x 71 cm, framed 120 x 100 cm. Signed and dated 'F. Barthelemy 1876'. A young girl is depicted standing in front of a loom, while an old woman with notes in her hand seems to be teaching her how to work as a weaver. Behind, a woman draws back the curtain revealing an architectural backdrop and ruin-like colonnades acting as a scenic backdrop. The painting, an oil on canvas, is signed and dated 'F. Barthelemy 1876' and can therefore be traced back to the body of work of François-Barthélemy-Marius Abel, an artist born in Marisglia on 28 February 1832 and who died in Paris on 11 September 1870. He trained in Lyon where he was a pupil of both Claude Bonnefond and Léon Cogniet, an artist, the latter, who studied alongside Gericault and Delacroix. Barthélemy was particularly concerned with religious and history painting, a genre of which the painting The Death of the Duke of Anjou, son of Henri II, dated 1863 and preserved in Blois at the Château Museum is an example. Other works of his can be found in private collections such as: The French Empire before the House of Savoy; Lady in an Interior; The Three Marys at the Sepulchre.
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