BORDEAUX SCHOOL - Lot 258

Lot 258
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BORDEAUX SCHOOL - Lot 258
BORDEAUX SCHOOL Trumeau in gilded wood decorated with a mirror surmounted by an oil on canvas with the attributes of Freemasonry "Voilà mes plaisirs". Work in the taste of the XVIIIth century 157 x 76,5 cm Dim. canvas : 102 x 67,5 cm (acc. misses, chips) Intended to decorate the living room of the initiated members, where it reminds its owner every day of the Masonic virtues, this painting is one of the specimens of a series of overmantels executed by a Bordeaux workshop from the same model at the turn of the 19th century. The composition puts the Mason between his Masonic duties (the three steps with the altar, the columns, the star with a G in the sky, the sun and the moon, the symbolic tools, ), and his profane pleasures (the arts, love, hunting, dancing, music, ). The motto "VOILA MES PLAISIRS" is inscribed on the profane pleasures of the character reminds us of the membership of Freemasonry. The ship in the distance invites to the voyage (initiatory or real). This painting is very emblematic of the beginnings of French Freemasonry (which started around 1730) where the lodges were above all places of sociability with the pleasures of the entertainment of the literate people (picnics, balls, hunting parties, theater, music, love affairs, ) that we find in the attributes on the right and at the bottom of the painting. According to the legend, the character represented in hunting clothes with his dogs is Montesquieu (one of the first initiates around 1720). In the various existing versions of this painting, the ship sometimes has a different composition.
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