FERDINAND HEILBUTH (after) (German, 1826-1888), "A shops Croissy-sur-Seine", 1889, photogravure after the painting.

Image size: 8.1 X 4.7 inches. Heliogravure after the painting of 1886, signed in the image at right center, printed in black and hand-colored on fine-grained, cream wove paper, 12 X 8 inch sheet. Published in the art review "Les Lettres et les Arts", 1889, Maison Goupil & Cie., Paris, 1889. Fine condition. Free shipping to US address.
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Son of a Hamburg merchant , Ferdinand Heilbuth, settled in Munich, abandoned rabbinical studies after a stay in Antwerp , to devote himself to art. He arrived in Paris shortly before the Second Republic . He enrolls in the studio of Charles Gleyre , of which he becomes a student. Around 1850, penniless, he settled temporarily with two political refugees who fled the anti-revolutionary reaction of the Germanic countries, two militants, Moritz Hartmann and Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim; the trio live in a small hotel called Les Trois Frères, located in the street of the same name, in Montmartre .

Heilbuth traveled and visited Rome many times between 1853 and 1855. He initially developed history painting and portraits in the style of Titian . Having become a genre painter , whose talent is characterized by nobility, liveliness of color and accent in expression, he obtained a second medal at the Paris Salon in 1857, 1858 and 1861. Gradually his brush, all in finesse, is not exempt from a fine irony, underlining the deference or even the obsequiousness towards the powerful of his time: little by little recognized, Heilbuth returns to the French imperial order and all its worldliness. He was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1861.

In addition to Paris, he exhibited many times in London at the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery; in 1863 his work was shown at the Boston Athenaeum .

In 1870, at the time of the conflict with Germany, he resigned himself to leaving for London, where he exhibited his landscapes inspired by France; he returned to Paris in 1874. He obtained French nationality in 1879 then was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1881.

Between September 1882 and May 1885, Vincent van Gogh, in his correspondence addressed to Anthon van Rappard , expresses all his admiration for the artist whom he first discovered through engravings.

The watercolours, which he shows at the Society of French Watercolourists, of which he is a founding member, and especially certain canvases from the period 1876-1880, leave certain characters, considered secondary, in a state of outline; Heilbruth seems shops to have been carried away in his style by the experiences of the Impressionists who were exhibiting in Paris at that time. His framing, his way of looking at women, his colors, are the expression of a painter who seeks to renew himself at the dawn of his death, which occurred in 1889.

He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
(source: wikipedia.org)