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Guillaume RONMY
(Rouen, 1786 - Paris, 1854)
Young Italian woman drying her child's swaddling clothes
Oil on panel
H. 16 cm; L. 13.5 cm
Signed lower left
Traces of inscriptions on the back: Sale Ron... and a number ..2?
Described as a history painter, Ronmy is best known as a landscape painter. He was a pupil of Vien and, above all, Taunay, and like the latter, sometimes worked as a figurist for fellow artists such as Lazare Bruandet.
The warm, steamy atmosphere of his "Italian" paintings brings him closer to certain works by Demarne, himself influenced by late 17th-century Dutch Italianists such as Berchem and Jan Both.
Ronmy exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1810 onwards, winning official awards and purchases from prestigious collectors such as the Duc d'Orléans and the Duchesse de Berry.
Our small panel is both a domestic interior scene and a landscape, using a technique familiar to the artist, the opening to the outside through an archway. It could be the painting entitled Jeune mère, lot N°67 from the Veuve Gabrié sale (Les Mureaux, April 14-18, 1901, Maître Marquis), and indicated as coming from the artist's 1860 sale.
