Marie Lucas-Robiquet: Our Lady of Victory

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Marie Lucas-Robiquet: Our Lady of Victory

Oil on canvas depicting the Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire in Saint-Raphaël.

Two boys fishing in the foreground.

Signed lower right.

Oak and gilded wood frame, frieze of interlocking laurel leaves.

Exhibition labels in Paris.

View: height 53 cm, width 45 cm.

Frame: height 73.5 cm, width 65.5 cm.

Marie Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1964) 

Daughter of an officer in the French Navy, Marie Aimée Lucas-Robiquet studied with Félix Joseph Barrias at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. 

A specialist in Orientalist painting, she exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artiste Français from 1879. She painted famous religious and military scenes, landscapes of Brittany and Holland, and portraits of women adorned in pink and black satin, in the manner of Manet. 

But it was above all her paintings of Algeria and Tunisia that brought her great success. In particular, she depicted numerous scenes of markets, date picking, weavers and washerwomen.

She was also an active exhibitor at the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français and the Salon de la Société des peintres Orientalistes français, presenting vividly colored canvases that transformed the small towns of the Maghreb into dazzling enchantments of juxtaposed brushstrokes. 

She also took part in the Colonial Exhibitions in Marseille in 1906 and 1922. 

Marie Lucas-Robiquet won several awards, including a third-class medal in 1894 and a second-class medal in 1905. She was awarded the Légion d'Honneur.

Her vibrantly colored canvases reflect an idealized vision of the rural condition, transforming it into a theatrical stage, as in her paintings "Arab Interior in Orellal" and "Date Harvest in Algeria". She also treated familiar scenes while pursuing her career as a portraitist in Europe, the United States and South America.

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