Victor Gabriel Gilbert

Victor Gabriel Gilbert
Victor Gabriel Gilbert
	Waterhouse portrait, 1902.
Born	13 February 1847; Paris, France
Died	21 July 1933 (aged 86); Paris, France

Victor Gabriel Gilbert (13 February 1847 – 21 July 1933) was a French painter mostly known for his Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there. He studied with Victor Adam (1801–1866) and subsequently with Charles Busson (1822–1908). In 1889 he was awarded a silver medal in the Société des Artistes Français, and a Bonnat prize in 1926 at the end of his career.

Expositions

1873: Salon des artistes français (represented with the paintings Avant le bal' en Les apprêts du diner)
1874: Salon des artistes français (Le pot au feu)
1875: Salon des artistes français (Portrait de Madame M.)
1880: Salon des artistes français;
1881: Salon des artistes français;
1883: Exposition in Munich;
1893: World's Columbian Exposition
1894: Exposition in Vienna;
1908: Exposition in London

Works in museums

La Halle aux poissons, le matin (1880, oil on canvas, 181 × 140 cm) in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille;
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Coquelicots dans un champ (attributed to Victor Gilbert, 1880, oil on panel, 26,8 × 35,2 cm) in the Philadelphia Museum of Art;
Petit Palais, Paris
Tentation (1892, photogravure on paper, 18 × 14 cm) in the Musée Goupil, Bordeaux;
Le Carreau des Halles (1880, 54 × 74 cm) in the Musée Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre;
La Demoiselle, Huile sur bois (41 × 32 cm) in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Bayeux;
Marchande de volailles lisant (oil on canvas; 46 × 56 cm) in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art;
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Château de Dieppe, Dieppe
Un coin des Halles (oil on canvas; 235 × 331 cm) in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
British Museum, London
Les Halles le Matin, La Boverie, Liège
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau
Hotel du Louvre

Sources:

Gallery

A Parisian Flower Market
The Vegetable Market (1878)
The Cat's Lunch (1879)
The Harvest
Young Woman in the Flower Garden (circa 1885)
Loving Flower Care
Flower Seller near the Louvre Bridge
Le Carreau des Halles (1880)
The Day of Walking (1881)
The Flower Market
Gardening
Hay Making (circa 1880)
Precaution
Offering a Flower to a Child
Afternoon Tea in the Public Garden
Dance Show
The Place of the Trinity
Flower Seller Making a Bouquet
A Flower Seller
The Toy Store
Flower Market
Portrait of an elegant woman with a mask
Market's Corner - Musée des Beaux-Arts - Bordeaux. In front of, a bust from John Warrington Wood