Scarlet Letter
Scarlet Letter c1861 av franska målaren Hugues Merle (1822 – 1881); som specialiserade sig på målningar som skildrade sentimentala hjärtvärmande scener och moraliskt ämne. His work is often compared to that of French Painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau; som du också hittar i Xzendor7 klassisk konstbutik.
Nathaniel Hawthorne författare till romanen “Scarlet Letter”, publicerad i 1850, betraktade denna målning, som William Walters (1820 – 1894; Affärsman och konstsamlare) beställt från Merle in 1859, som den finaste illustrationen av hans roman.
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Hugues Merle föddes i 1822 i La Sône, France and around the age of 21 arrived in Paris, France where he studied painting under the French Historical and Portrait Painter Léon Cogniet (1794 – 1880).
Though little is known of Hugues early life it is assumed that he received some degree of art education before he arrived in Paris in 1843; because he began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1847 with his piece Portrait de L’auteur and in 1848 he exhibited the piece Légende des Willis.
As time went on Hugues reputation as a portraitist grew substantially during the 1850s; and as a successful and prominent painter he was able to attract serious art lovers that were looking to build their art collections.
One of these early collectors of art was th 4th Marquess of Hertford, Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870); who purchased his salon submission Reading the Bible in 1859.
During the 1860s, Huges client list of collectors included not only individuals from the European continent, but also American collectors, such as William Walters of Baltimore who commissioned The Scarlet Letter.