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A painting by Charles Valfort acquired by the Musée de la Vie romantique
19/2/24 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée de la Vie romantique - A fascinating representation of an artist’s studio has joined the collections of the Musée de la Vie romantique. Acquired from the Michel Descours gallery in Paris, it is by Charles Valfort, a little-known painter and lithographer. A pupil of Gros, he exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1836 to 1857 and at the Lyon Salons from 1840 to 1858, mainly Orientalist genre scenes inspired by his Mediterranean travels, which he began in 1838 in Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Albania and Malta. Presented at the Salon of 1848, Concert in the Studio most likely depicts the painter’s studio, then installed for another year at no. 3 rue de Ménilmontant. As Gaëlle Rio, the director of the Musée de la Vie romantique, points out in her detailed…
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