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The Spinning Wheel

Creator: Jean-Pierre Haag
Offered by: Schillay Fine Art, Inc.

Description
Jean-Pierre HAAG (1842-1921)

The Spinning Wheel
oil on canvas 29 x 22 3/4 inches
framed: 43 x 36 inches
signed lower right

Provenance:
sale: Christie’s, New York, May 26, 1992, lot 113
Private collection, Great Neck, Long Island, by descent to
Private collection, Melville, Long Island

Known for: Small town life, genre, children and everyday life painting
Name variants: Jean Paul Haag

Jean-Pierre Haag was the son of Jean Haag, a mechanic, and his wife Genevieve Maloizel living in Elbeuf, Normandy. All his life, the artist kept a property in this area.

He joined the Ecouen Painters Colony on 1870 and settled down at rue de Paris (currently being rue du Marechal Leclerc). Jean-Pierre Haag became a student of Pierre Edouard Frere and Leon Dansaert. He married Ernestine Juliette Confais and they had several children including the painter Jean Gaston Haag. It is believed that painting subjects were of his wife and children.

He exhibited in Paris in 1870 for the first time, showing his painting titled "Interieur de forge a Villiers-le-Bel".

Like most of the artists of Ecouen, he painted the country lifestyle, common life scenes.

One of his major works titled "La gardeuse d'enfants en Normandie" (The Babysitter in Normandy) was exhibited in 1980 at the Paris Grand Palais. In April 1989, “Le jeu de dominos” was shown in London. Both belong to the Louviers Museum (Normandy).

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	19th Century
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Realism
Incollect Reference #:	596102

Dimensions

W.	22 in;	H.	29 in;
W.	55.88 cm;	H.	73.66 cm;

Message from Seller:

Schillay Fine Art, Inc. and Richard Schillay have carried on and expanded the art dealing tradition begun by Richard’s father, M. Edwin Schillay. For decades after World War II, M. Edwin Schillay was the foremost dealer of 19th century British art. He spearheaded the introduction to America of Victorian paintings on a large scale. Today Schillay Fine Art has greatly expanded its interests and offering -- well into the fields of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modern, and Post-War art.