Lot 356
Richard Clague (American/Louisiana, 1821-1873), Backyard in Algiers, oil on canvas, signed R. Clague lower right, 16 in. x 24 in., in a period giltwood frame. E100000/125000 Provenance: A Prominent New Orleans Family. Exhibited in the 1974 New Orleans Museum of Art Richard Clague Retrospective and illustrated in the catalogue, plate 58, page 93. Note: Richard Clague is credited with bringing the tradition of landscape painting to Louisiana during the late nineteenth century. He became both a teacher and mentor to a group of New Orleans artist including William H. Buck, Marshall J. Smith, Jr. and Charles Giroux. French trained, Clague was strongly influenced by the Barbizon artists who favored rural scenes painted pleine-aire. In Backyard in Algiers, Clague chose to depict the view of outbuildings and Creole cottage behind the main residence. An African-American woman feeds the chickens from the porch of the cottage while cows and pigs graze in the fields and backyard. Clague did a series of paintings of Algiers, one of which is in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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