Richard Clague ART FOR SALE

1816 Paris, France - 1878 Algiers, Louisiana. Known for: Bayou landscape, genre, portrait.

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Credited with introducing the tradition of European landscape painting, especially that of the Barbizon School, to the Louisiana landscape during the late 19th century, Richard Clague was both a teacher and mentor to a group of New Orleans artists that included William Buck Marshall Smith and Charles Giroux. They were called the Bayou School of Painting, and they recorded in a "monumental and precise manner the distinctive Spanish moss and hazy atmosphere of the bayou region." (Falk) Clague's landscapes were the first to depict successfully the character of the Delta and characteristically included hunting camps, trappers' cabins and boats on sluggish streams. He was born Paris, France to a wealthy New Orleans family that sent him to... Read full biography

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Lot 197 - Louisiana Purchase Auction November 19

Type:Painting

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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Lot 197 - Richard Clague, Jr., "River Landscape with Cabin and Boat on a Bayou", oil on canvas, initialed lower right, inscribed "Marie Reyne 1890" on reverse of frame, framed with artist plaque. Provenance: Descended in the Crozat family. Estimate: $40,000-60,000

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Lot 196 - Louisiana Purchase Auction November 19

Type:Painting

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Left

Notes:

Lot 196 - Richard Clague, Jr., "Near Covington", oil on canvas, initialed lower left, inscribed "Marie Reyne 1890" on reverse of frame, "New Orleans Museum of Art" exhibition label with artist and title on backing board, framed. Provenance: Descended in the Crozat family. Estimate: $40,000-60,000

Price: Please contact Neal Auction Company