The Rose Seller in Capri, dated 1887.
Édouard Rosset-Granger presents us here with a charming large-format painting, painted in Capri in 1887. The work is both decorative and of beautiful pictorial quality.
Oil on canvas

Signed, dedicated and dated 1887 lower right

Dimensions: 110 x 72 cm

with frame: 127 x 90 cm

Anacapri on the island of Capri.

Painted during one of his frequent stays on the island of Capri, the painting can most likely be located in Anacapri where the Dubufe family owned a villa. A young islander, leaning on a low wall, her basket of roses placed on the edge of the wall, seems dreamy. A shot from below brings depth and highlights the reliefs of the magnificent Italian island.

Edouard Rosset-Granger, a painting with contrasting touches and colors.

Édouard Rosset-Granger uses a lively touch for the landscape and a more polished touch, highlighting the finesse of the details for the character.
The palette comes in a very pretty range of soft colors in pinks, beige, white highlighted by the bright red of the scarf.

Biography

Édouard Rosset-Granger, born in Vincennes and died in Paris, was a portrait painter, landscape painter, pastel artist, genre painter and illustrator.
Natural son of Édouard Dubufe, Paul Édouard Rosset-Granger was a student of Alexandre Cabanel, Édouard Dubufe and Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris.

He exhibited mythological subjects and genre paintings at the Salon des artistes français from 1878, then at the Salon of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts and at the Société des amis des arts de Bordeaux.

He received several awards at the salons. He received the gold medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris, Decorative Arts section.

Rosset-Granger was named a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1898.
From 1906 to 1909 he participated in the decoration of the town hall of Saint-Mandé with Guillaume Dubufe, his half-brother, who was his fellow student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.

In 1900, he participated in the decoration of the golden room of the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris with a decorative panel representing Lake Bourget.
At the end of XIXth century, Rosset-Granger worked in the Ternes district in a workshop located at 5, rue Émile-Allez. In April 1902, he moved into his new workshop located in the Monceaux plain at 45, avenue de Villiers, which he still occupied in 1906. His immediate neighbor was Guillaume Dubufe, whose private mansion was located at no. 43 of the same avenue.
He made many trips to Brittany, Normandy, and especially to Italy, notably to Anacapri (Isle of Capri) where the DUBUFE family had a villa.
Édouard Rosset-Granger died on July 26, 1934 at his Parisian home at 17, avenue Gourgaud. The funeral mass was celebrated four days later at the Saint-François-de-Sales church in Paris. He was buried in Paris at the Batignolles cemetery, 11th division.
He participates in numerous exhibitions in the provinces and abroad.

Exhibitions

• Exhibition of French Painting in Copenhagen in 1888 • International Exhibition of Chicago (USA) in 1893. • Universal Exhibition of Antwerp in 1894. • International Exhibition of Berlin in 1895. • International Exhibition of Brussels in 1897. • International Exhibition of Copenhagen in 1897. • International Exhibition of Scheveningen (Netherlands) in 1902. • Exhibition "Paris in London" of London in 1902. • Exhibition "Spring Exhibitions" of London in 1903.

• Universal Exhibition of Saint-Louis (USA) in 1904. • Universal and International Exhibition of Liège in 1905. • International Spring Exhibition of Budapest (Hungary) in 1905. • International Exhibition of Montreal (Canada) in 1909. • International Exhibition of New York in 1916. • Exhibitions at the Salons des Orientalistes of Algiers and Oran.
Bibliography
• Bénézit Dictionary, Paris, Gründ, 1999.
• Collective, Le Train Bleu, Paris, Éd. Presse Lois Unis Service, 1990, 114 p.
• Sabrina da Conceiçao and Georges Barthe, Gypseries, Association for the valorization of gypsum and plaster, Creaphis Éd., 2005, p. 192
• The New York Times, April 24, 1886 – Documentation from the Musée d’Orsay.

Museums

France

• Aix-en-Provence, Granet Museum: Fig Picking, Capri, 1887,
• Carcassonne, Museum of Fine Arts: Orpheus, 1884,
• Castéra-Verduzan, town hall: Young archer, 1928.
• Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts: Female nude, 1885,
• Lille, town hall: Portrait of Jules Dutilleul.
• Marseille, Museum of Fine Arts: Hide and Seek, 1890.
• Maubeuge, Henri-Boez museum: Drama theater.
• Montauban, Ingres museum: Charmeuse, 1883.
• Le Havre, André Malraux Museum
• Issoudun, Saint-Roch Hospice Museum, The accident
• Versailles, Coquetry
• Blois Castle Museum, Little Bacchus
• Paris, Gare de Lyon, Le Train bleu restaurant, golden room: Le Lac du Bourget, 1900.
• Saint-Mandé, town hall: four decorative panels, including The Evening of Life; The Golden Wedding, 1907, in the grand staircase and Summer in the function room.

USA

• Philadelphia Museum, Covetousness.