Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (French, 1817-1892) Oil on Board - A superb example by Caston of a framed French Oil Painting dated 1861 on Artists board of compact size and of Museum quality. Complete with its original good quality heavy (original) richly gilded ornate giltwood frame. Two Ladies in period dress with an infant beside a water spring. Condition: Good condition recently professionally cleaned and put back together, ready to hang. Title “NEAR THE SPRING” Provenance: Burlington Art Gallery, Burlington, London, England. Signed and dated lower left.
Height: (entire including frame) 15.75" (40cm). Width: (entire including frame) 17.75” (45cm). Depth: (thickness of frame) 3” (7.5cm).
Pierre Jean Edmond Castan (French, 1817-1892) was a French artist born in Toulouse in Haute-Garrone who specialized in capturing simple moments of daily life, interior scenes of peasants and children playing games. A pupil of neoclassical painter Francois Gerard, he also followed the teaching of Martin Drolling in Paris. Castan began his exhibition career in the Salon of French Artists in 1868. In 1875 he began sending portraits to the Salon and continued to do so through 1880.