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18. Simon-Mathurin Lantarat called Lantara (1729-1778) Storm over a Village on a Hill |
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Storm over a Village on a Hill
Black chalk, and white chalk on faded blue paper,188 x 253 mm. Provenance: ARD (Lugt 172), apparently the mark of an 18th-century mounter of drawings.
A fully finished, romantic landscape (with lightning bolt), signed in pencil, pasted to an old French mount with framing lines. Though praised for his “realism,” Lantara was the master, perhaps the inventor, of the “spooky” landscape, a genre that found its culmination, perhaps, in the drawings of Victor Hugo. His was a life of pitiful beginnings, abject poverty and total lack of recognition. Married to a fruit-seller in Paris, he sold his paintings and drawings to dealers at low prices, and found later that his landscapes had had figures added to them by some of the most prominent painters of the day. He himself never developed the social skills necessary to success, rarely publicly exhibited his works, remained a loner and died broke and short of his fiftieth birthday in the charity hospital. After his death, a number of his images were engraved and his compositions, many strikingly ahead of his time, began to receive the recognition their creator never knew.
