Eugène Petit
Eugène Petit was a French flower painter and textile designer.
Biography
Eugene Petit was born in Paris in 1839. He briefly taught the American painter Henry Woodbridge Parton, 1875.He specialized in still life paintings of flowers and fruits, as well as sporting dogs. His work has been found in museums in Carcassonne, Compiègne, Courtrai, Rouen and Saint-Etienne in France as well as The Sladmore Gallery in London. Some of his work has been auctioned at Bonhams. One of his hunting scenes, "On the Scent, Setters" sold at Sothebys in New York for $13,200 in 2006.
Work
Summer Flowers in a VaseStill life with peonies and rosesDaisies, Poppies And Wild RosesSummer blooms in a glass vaseSpaniels hunting duckStill lifeSetters flushing out ducksChrysanthemums in a brass urn, and a silver tray and jug on a draped tableThe ChaseSetters flushing out duckBlossom branches and peonies in a vaseOn the pointOn the point 2Pointers on the scentPointers by the edge of a lakeA pointer and a setter on the scentThe Garden GateTwo Pointers Hunting by a Path- ''Le chemin aux arbres et fleurs''