Published in November 2022

In 2022, Fine Arts Paris became the finest international event in Paris for the arts from Antiquity to the present day by joining forces with La Biennale Paris.
The first edition of Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale brought together more than 86 exhibitors from 9 to 13 November at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.

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List of artists

in order of appearance in the catalogue

• Nicolo DELL’ABATE (Modène 1512 – Fontainebleau 1571)
• Entourage de Germain PILON (Paris 1537 – Paris 1590)
• Jacopo Palma, dit PALMA LE JEUNE (Venise 1544 – Venise 1628)
• Giovanni Battista CASTELLO, dit Il Genovese (Gênes 1547 – Gênes 1639)
• Jacopo da EMPOLI (Florence 1551 – Florence 1640)
• Jacques STELLA (Lyon 1596 – Paris 1657)
• Stefano DELLA BELLA (Florence 1610 – Florence 1664)
• Benedetto LUTI (Florence 1666 – Rome 1724)
• Rosalba CARRIERA (Venise 1675 – Venise 1757)
• Francesco MONTI (Bologne 1685 – Bergame 1768)
• Jean-Baptiste OUDRY (Paris 1686 – Beauvais 1755)
• Francesco FONTEBASSO (Venise 1707 – Venise 1769)
• Giandomenico TIEPOLO (Venise 1727 – Venise 1804)
• École Française du XVIIIe siècle
• Jacques-Louis DAVID (Paris 1748 – Bruxelles 1925)
• Jacques-Antoine-Marie LEMOINE (Rouen 1751 – Paris 1824)
• Pierre-Joseph REDOUTE (Saint-Hubert 1759 – Paris 1840)
• Louis DELAVILLE (Jouy-sous-Thelle 1763 – Lens 1841)
• Charles MEYNIER (Paris 1768 – Paris 1832)
• Jean-Baptiste-Joseph DE BAY (Malines 1779 – Paris 1863)
• Jean-Charles-Joseph REMOND (Paris 1795 – Paris 1875)
• Jean-Jacques GRANDVILLE (Nancy 1803 – Vanves 1847)
• Félix-Hippolyte LANOUE (Château de Versailles 1812 – Versailles 1872)
• Jean-François MILLET (Gréville Hague 1814 – Barbizon 1875)
• François BONVIN (Paris 1817 – St-Germain-en-Laye 1887)
• Henri-Joseph HARPIGNIES (Valenciennes 1819 – Saint-Privé 1916)
• Alfred de CURZON (Moulinet 1820 – Paris 1895)
• Edgar DEGAS (Paris 1834 – Paris 1917)
• Ernest-Ange DUEZ (Paris 1843 – Bougival 1896)
• René de SAINT-MARCEAUX (Reims 1845 – Paris 1915)
• Clément-Théodule-Germain RIBOT (Paris 1845 – Argenteuil 1893)
• Henry SOMM (Rouen 1844 – Paris 1907)
• Edouard-Bernard DEBAT-PONSAN (Toulouse 1847 – Paris 1913)
• Jules DESBOIS (Parçay-les-Pins 1851 – Paris 1935)
• Louis HAYET (Pontoise 1864 – Cormeilles-en-Parisis 1940)
• Charles LACOSTE (Floirac 1870 – Paris 1959)
• Albert-Simon-Aimé BUSSY (Dole 1870 – Londres 1954)
• Auguste LEROUX (Paris 1871 – Paris 1954)
• Paul SIEFFERT (Paris 1874 – Sèvres 1957)
• Marguerite DE BAYSER-GRATRY (Bruxelles 1881 – Paris 1975)
• Séraphin GILY (Aix-en-Provence 1909 – Paris 1970)
• José-Manuel CAPULETTI (Valladolid 1925 – Walluf 1978)

Focus on the artwork on the cover

Jean-François MILLET
(Gréville Hague 1814 – Barbizon 1875)
Portrait de Félix-Auguste Postel, armateur au Havre
(Portrait of Félix-Auguste Postel, shipowner in Le Havre)

Pastel
39,5×31,5 cm
Signed lower left « F.Millet »

Provenance
Postel family, then by descent

Exhibition
Réalistes et Impressionnistes normands, Douvres, Baronnie de Douves, 1961 HC

Bibliography
Lucien Lepoittevin, Jean-François Millet Portraitiste, Paris 1971, n°88 reproduit Actes du XXVe congrès des Sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Normandie, Communauté urbaine de Cherbourg, 4-7 October 1990, reproduced on p.168 pl.II

Born in Cotentin, Jean-François Millet trained as a painter in Cherbourg, where he lived until 1845. In his early years, he painted intimate portraits, notably of his young wife, but also of Cherbourg notables. Leaving Cherbourg in search of commissions, he stayed in Le Havre in 1845. He painted several portraits of shipowners and personalities from Le Havre, including the Portrait of Charles-André Langevin, now in Le Havre, the Portrait of a Naval Officer, now in Rouen, and the Portrait of Germance Hachard, now in the Bremen Museum. Shortly after this short stay, he abandoned portraiture to turn to the subjects that would make him famous.

Painted in Le Havre in 1845, this exceptional pastel portrait depicts Félix-Auguste Postel (1817-1895), son of Bon-Auguste Postel, who founded the family shipping company in Cherbourg in 1820. Operating from Cherbourg and Le Havre, the company transported wheat, exotic wood and sugar to the West Indies, Ceylon and Bombay, and also carried passenger traffic between Cherbourg and Dunkirk.