Adolphe YVON (Eschviller, 1817 – Paris, 1893) - Lot 0

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Adolphe YVON (Eschviller, 1817 – Paris, 1893) - Lot 0
Adolphe YVON (Eschviller, 1817 – Paris, 1893) Portrait of Madame Hermann-Joseph Reinach, née Julie Büding (1817–1893), 1863 Oil on oval canvas, signed and dated in the center left. 65 x 54 cm In its original oval display frame. Frame: 84 x 73 cm. Provenance Reinach family collection. Formerly in a Christie’s sale (according to a label preserved on the reverse). Exhibitions According to the label visible on the reverse: Tokyo, Exhibition of French Painters, 1977, no. 31, reproduced on p. 65 (under an erroneous identification of the subject). Catalog Note Painted in 1863, this portrait depicts Julie Büding (1817–1893), wife of the banker Hermann-Joseph Reinach and mother of Joseph, Salomon, and Théodore Reinach. Long mistakenly identified as a portrait of Madame Salomon Reinach, the subject’s identity was confirmed thanks to the family chronology: in 1863, Salomon Reinach was only five years old. The subject must therefore be his mother, who was forty-six years old at the time. A leading figure of the Second Empire, Adolphe Yvon was one of the most sought-after portraitists of his time. Highly regarded by Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, he simultaneously pursued an international career that took him to England, the United States, and Russia, among other places. Julie Reinach is depicted in profile, a style particularly popular at the time in European artistic circles. The simplicity of the composition, the delicate modeling of the face, and the elegance of the hairstyle inspired by antiquity lend the portrait a timeless quality. The refined treatment of the profile evokes both ancient cameos and the neoclassical ideal that characterized mid-19th-century art. The historical significance of this portrait also lies in the identity of its subject. Her youngest son, Théodore Reinach (1860–1928), an archaeologist, historian, and Hellenist, commissioned the Villa Kérylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, a remarkable reconstruction of an ancient Greek residence built between 1902 and 1908. Through its taste for antiquity and the serene nobility of its depiction, this portrait seems to foreshadow the intellectual and aesthetic world in which the Reinach family would evolve at the turn of the 20th century. The reverse bears several old inscriptions and labels, including a label from Christie’s, as well as a photograph of the work. It also attests to the painting’s inclusion in the Exhibition of French Painters held in Tokyo in 1977.
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