Victor Gilbert

Victor Gabriel Gilbert (13 February 1847 – 21 July 1933) was a French painter mostly known for his Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there. He studied with Victor Adam (1801–1866) and subsequently with Charles Busson (1822–1908). In 1889 he was awarded a silver medal in the Société des Artistes Français, and a Bonnat prize in 1926 at the end of his career.

Expositions

1873: Salon des artistes français (represented with the paintings Avant le bal''' en Les apprêts du diner) 1874: Salon des artistes français (Le pot au feu) 1875: Salon des artistes français (Portrait de Madame M.) 1880: Salon des artistes français; 1881: Salon des artistes français; 1883: Exposition in Munich; 1893: World's Columbian Exposition 1894: Exposition in Vienna; 1908: Exposition in London

Works in museums

La Halle aux poissons, le matin (1880, oil on canvas, 181 × 140 cm) in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille; Musée Carnavalet, Paris Coquelicots dans un champ (attributed to Victor Gilbert, 1880, oil on panel, 26,8 × 35,2 cm) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Petit Palais, Paris Tentation (1892, photogravure on paper, 18 × 14 cm) in the Musée Goupil, Bordeaux; Le Carreau des Halles (1880, 54 × 74 cm) in the Musée Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre; La Demoiselle, Huile sur bois (41 × 32 cm) in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Bayeux; Marchande de volailles lisant (oil on canvas; 46 × 56 cm) in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Château de Dieppe, Dieppe Un coin des Halles (oil on canvas; 235 × 331 cm) in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux British Museum, London Les Halles le Matin'', La Boverie, Liège RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau Hotel du Louvre

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