Alexandre LAEMLEIN (Hohenfeld [Bavaria],... - Lot 33 - Ader

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Alexandre LAEMLEIN (Hohenfeld [Bavaria],... - Lot 33 - Ader
Alexandre LAEMLEIN (Hohenfeld [Bavaria], 1813 - Pontlevoy, 1871) Portrait of the enameller Jacob Meyer-Heine (1805-1879) Original canvas by Susse Signed and dated on the right: "A. LAEMLEIN / 1848 81 x 64,5 cm Exhibition: Paris, Salon of 1849, n° 1873. Provenance: Jacob Meyer-Heine, then by descent. Nephew of a German rabbi who was a chess genius, son of a gardener, Alexandre Laemlein arrived in Paris in 1822. He worked in an engraving workshop and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1829, as a student of Régnault, then of Picot. Introduced to Jean Alaux, he participated in the restoration of Primaticcio's frescoes in Fontainebleau. Although he did not go to Italy, this work familiarized him with the art of the Renaissance. He exhibited at the Salon from 1836 and won medals, then received commissions for the Museum of French History in Versailles. In 1846, the presentation at the Salon of La Charité (Caen Musée des Beaux-Arts), a humanist plea that just preceded the abolition of slavery, received an enthusiastic welcome from critics and the public. The painting was bought by the Emperor and five works by Laemlein were presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1855, while a fresco was commissioned for the church of Sainte-Clotilde. That same year, Laemlein was appointed professor at the special school of drawing. Director of the enamel painting workshop at the Manufacture de Sèvres from 1845 to 1872, Jacob Meyer-Heine asked Alexandre Laemlein for models to decorate vases (one of them is preserved in the Valence Museum, Drôme) or plaques (Palissy dans son atelier, New York, Metropolitan Museum, inv. 2007.221).
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