BOHER (François)

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BOHER (François)
Description of an Allegorical Painting Representing the General Pacification Ended by the Peace of Amiens. [At the end]: Perpignan, From the Printers of Pourtet and Ay, s.d. [c. 1805]. Booklet in-4, 12 pages, modern bradel boards. First edition. The author, a professor of drawing at the central school of the Pyrénées-Orientales, had participated in an official competition organized to celebrate the peace of Amiens (1802). Having composed an allegorical painting, much better painted and more brilliantly coloured than all those he had produced before, he decided to exhibit it in Perpignan before sending it to Paris to be judged by the Central Jury of Arts. For the intelligence of his composition, he then wrote this memoir. The history of this painting participates a lot in this character of strangeness, which is reflected in the life of our painter. And first of all we should mention the brochure, one of the typographical rarities [...]. It gives an account, with the most meticulous enthusiasm, of the work and the qualities that the author wanted to give it: painting, drawing, ideal, expression and grace [...]. He asks that this composition be seen several times, to grasp all its beauties (cf. Fabre de Llaro, Un Chapitre curieux de l'histoire des Beaux-Arts en Roussillon. Biographie de Boher, 1878). Only one copy located in public collections in France, kept in Perpignan.
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