Le Mont Cervin, neige blanche
Thick cardboard
Signed on the bottom left 'E R Ménard'
H 27XL 37,5cm
Exhibition labels on the back of the panel, and the studio sale stamp.
Bears a '20e' label on the back with title and date '1907'
Provenance: E.-René Ménard studio auction, Paris, Hotel Drouot (Maître Boisgirard), 10 March 1982, no72.
Exhibition: Exposition internationale d'art, Venise, 1912, no 562 (labels).
Son of René Joseph Ménard and a pupil of Baudry at the Academie Julian, René Ménard debuted at the Salon in 1883 and exhibited until 1922. He brought back many sketches from his trip to Morocco and the Atlas mountains. His landscapes of the Mont Cervin are rare. We can only cite 'Le Cervin, reflet dans la brume' (71 X 50cm), a painting bought by the State in 1908 at the Salon de la société nouvelle (deposited at the French Embassy in Istanbul; see the Musée d'Orsay website consulted in July 2024). This piece, which bears the label 'Le Mont Cervin, neige blanche 1907', could be the preliminary painting.
