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VICTOR GILBERT | A Warm Welcome
22¼" x 18¼" / 56.5 x 46.5 cms
Oil on Canvas
Two women under an arch in the winter snow.
Victor Gabriel Gilbert was born in Paris in 1847, a year before the Realist innovations of Courbet would take the Paris Salons by storm. He studied for a short time with painter and lithographer Victor Adam and later with landscape painter Charles Busson, though he soon became established and recognized as painter of daily life, particularly prized for his Parisian scenes. Able to capture moments of connection, buyers and sellers negotiating to children playing, Gilbert developed a unique approach to Genre painting that kept his work in demand throughout his long career.
Victor Gabriel Gilbert was born in Paris in 1847 and studied for a short time with painter and lithographer Victor Adam and later with landscape painter Charles Busson. However, he soon became established and recognised as a painter of daily life, particularly prized for Parisian scenes. Able to capture moments of connection, buyers and sellers negotiating to children playing, Gilbert developed a unique approach to Genre painting that kept his work in demand throughout his long career.
Gilbert particularly excelled at market scenes of fruit and vegetables sellers and his favorite subject matter were Les Halles, the central food market in Paris. Les Halles offered Gilbert a rich backdrop and exciting scenery where he would find colorful characters and stall holders bustling about their daily business.
As an artist, Gilbert’s greatest stylistic debt is clearly to the Realist movement. While this movement is widely considered to have ended with the Advent of Impressionism, Gilbert was one of the few figures that carried its legacy into the twentieth century, combining it with the more photographic impulses of Impressionism to create his own style.
Gilbert exhibited regularly at the Salon throughout his life and was awarded a silver medal in 1889 and the Bonnat prize in 1926 towards the very end of his life. He was also named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1897 and made a juror of the Salon. A most successful artist, his work was sought in Europe as well as in North America. He passed away in Paris in 1933.
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