Charles Jung (Lyon 1865-1936)
Nature morte aux écrevisses
1921
Huile sur toile
27 × 35 cm
Signée et datée en bas à gauche : 1921 / C. Jung
PRIX : sur demande
CHARLES JUNG (Lyon, 1865-1936)
Still-life with Crayfish
Oil on canvas
27 x 35 cm (canvas size)
Dated and signed lower left: 1921 / C. Jung
Charles Jung was one of the great Lyon still-life painters of the late nineteenth / beginning of the twentieth centuries. As a young artist he was quite heavily criticised by the more conservative critics for his painterly technique which makes heavy use of impasto and dabs of bright coloured paint as being too modern, but he was hailed by many others in Paris as well as in Lyon. In Paris he was known as the ‘King of the Thistles’ for the reason that he was probably the best painter of still-lives of thistles in France at the time. Towards the end of his life the rebel had settled down, and he became President of the Association of Lyon Painters with a large apartment and atelier in Rue Sala near the Rhône. At one time, every significant private art collection in Lyon, and many in Paris, had a Jung still-life, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon has a number of Jungs in the collection.
It is worth saying that the shellfish painted here by Jung are probably not simply prawns but rather freshwater crayfish which were cultivated in the ponds in the Dombes region north of Lyon and in Lake Nantua – it is these crayfish which are (or should be) the key ingredient the famous sauce Nantua.
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