Artist: Andre Brouillet (1857 – 1914)
Title: The Wounded Peasant
Medium: Antique print after the original.
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Dimensions: Image Size 8 1/8 x 10 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The wounded peasant, carried into his house by two men, assisted by two women. His wife stands in the doorway, covering her face with her hands; and her two children, at the foot of the steps, are interested spectator. A pot of flowers on the window sill.
Born in Charroux, the son of sculptor Pierre-Amédée Brouillet and Élisabeth Leriget, Brouillet began engineering studies at the École centrale Paris in 1876 before entering the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts three years later, where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. In the year of his reception at the Salon de peinture et de sculpture in 1879, he attended Jean-Paul Laurens’ lessons.