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Circuit Railway at Grenelle
Presented by Miss J.M.A. Workman 1923
architecture
chimney
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
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France
industrial
Paris, Grenelle
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railway
shed
snow
telegraph pole
tower block
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painting oil paint canvas
Circuit Railway at Grenelle
support: 921 × 730 mm
frame: 1027 × 836 × 61 mm
Presented by Miss J.M.A. Workman 1923
<p><b>Antoine Villard</b> 1867-1934</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/villard-circuit-railway-at-grenelle-n03830" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03830</span></a> <b>Chemin de Fer de Ceinture à Grenelle</b> (Circuit Railway at Grenelle) 1922</p>
<p>Inscribed 'A. Villard | 1922.' b.r. and 'A. Villard.' on stretcher 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 (92 x 73) 
<br/>Presented by Miss J.M.A. Workman 1923 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: Purchased by Miss J.M.A. Workman from a dealer in the Rue Royale, Paris (Druet?), 1923 
<br/><i>Exh: French Paintings and Drawings</i>, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, February-April 1932 (33); <i>French Art</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, April-June 1932 (25); RSA, Edinburgh, April-September 1934 (165) 
<br/><i>Lit</i>: Charles Fegdal, <i>Ateliers d'Artistes</i> (Paris 1925), p.182; Georges Turpin, <i>Dix-huit Peintres Indépendants</i> (Paris 1931), pp.200-1; Edouard-Joseph, <i>Dictionnaire Biographique des Artistes Contemporains 1910-30</i> (Paris 1934), Vol.3, pp.390-2; Jacques Guenne, 'Antoine Villard' in <i>L'Art Vivant</i>, No.188, 1934, p.373</p>
<p>Painted in Paris in 1922 and catalogued at one time as 'Tenements'. It depicts a view from Villard's studio at 4 Square Desnouettes, Paris 15e. Villard painted a series of pictures of this motif over a period of years under the title used here, including a number of other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> which also show the scene under snow. According to Georges Turpin, loc. cit.: 'This is the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> which Villard painted ten times, twenty times, a hundred times, at all hours, in all moods, at all seasons'.</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.749, reproduced p.749</p>

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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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architecture chimney cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features France industrial Paris, Grenelle places railway shed snow telegraph pole tower block townscape townscapes / man-made features weather yard