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This is Datapage 12 re Auguste (or August) Friedrich
(or Frederic) Albrecht (or Albert) Schenck.
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L'ÉCHIR now known as LA RAFALE (1880)
This work comes from the
website of the
City of Écouen, near Paris, France, where the artist lived for most of his
life. He even has a street there named after him - 'Rue Auguste Schenck'. Two
postcards which show the street are low on page
04.
For many years, I could not tell from the
City of Écouen website, the name of the work or exactly where the work was in Écouen or indeed, come to think of it, whether
the work was in fact owned by the City of Écouen at all. And then, I could not find
the image on their website any more.
But,
the City of Écouen changed its website & the painting became again visible - on this
page,
only to be today, in Sep. 2021, gone again. When that page was operative, the
painting was identified as being 'L'Échir', a Schenck work long lost to the webmaster. It would seem that today the City of City of Écouen names the work 'La Rafale' (the gust).
The work is today kindly made available by 'Les Peintres D'Ecouen 1850-1900'
with a fine
page about the artist here & the
actual painting
here.
Such page tells us that the painting was given to the Ville d'Écouen
by Schenck's widow, along with a large portrait of the artist painted by Frederick D. Henwood (1864/1948), 'in exchange' for the naming of
the street on which they lived, after her husband.
In June 2011, Gilbert Rousseau,
of the Écouen tourist office, was in touch (thanks so much, Gilbert!) & advises as follows:
Le tableau appelé L’ECHIR est effectivement exposé à l’Hôtel
de ville de notre cité. Ce grand tableau est un don d’A. SCHENCK ou de ses
descendants à notre commune.
A. SCHENCK est venu habiter notre
commune en 1862 et y est décédé en 1900.
Une collection de l’école d’Ecouen
est visible à l’Hôtel de ville et réuni outre ce SCHENCK des toiles de Paul
SEIGNAC, Léon DANSAERT, C. B. D’ENTRAYGUES, Louis LASSALLE-CABAILLOT, Paul
LORILLON, Gaston et Jean Pierre HAAG, Félix GARDON, Charles Edouard FRERE,
Pierre Edouard FRERE, J. B. DUFFAUD, Luigi CHIALIVA, Théophile Emmanuel DUVERGER
et Victor NAVLET.
Which, I believe, advises that the work is on display at
the Town Hall of the City of Écouen, along with artworks of a great many other Écouen artists.
That the artist came to live in Écouen in 1862 & died there in 1900. And that
'L'Échir' was,
in fact, a gift to the City by the Schenck family.
One matter remains! I have never been successful in trying to translate the name of the work
(L'Échir) into English.
Can anybody help in that regard?
In the white text here, the work's name was translated/described
in 1884 as 'Snow
Squall in the Auvergne Mountains'.
Re the meaning of 'L'Échir', F.
Meunier, of France, has kindly come to the rescue! In a guestbook message in Jul. 2012
he states as follows:-
Referring to the painting 'L'échir' on page 12, I understand that the meaning of
'l’echir' could be a problem, even here in France!
L’échir, which should have
been written 'l’écir', but pronounced indeed 'l'échir', is an old Occitan word, It is
the name of the cold wind from the NE which covers with snow the mountains of Auvergne.
This is exactly what the painting represents: a strong blow of cold
wind with abundant and penetrating snow (brrr). This word is used (seldomly)
locally, mainly for traditional crafts. Google for 'ecir' returns mainly names
of typical restaurants or producers of sheep cheese in Auvergne!
Since the
word 'échir' is so much appropriate to the work of August Schenck, it had to be
clarified.
Thank you so much M. Meunier!
UNKNOWN SCHENCK PAINTING No. 4
The next work is an oil on canvas painting of 35-1/2" x 55-1/4"
&
signed 'Schenck' in lower right, that sold for U.S. $4,600 on Jan. 5/6 2002 via
Brunk Auctions of
Asheville, Carolina. They believed the artist to be Danish.
More when I get more! Maybe YOU could provide new data
or could provide a clue as to where new data
about this work (or indeed any other Schenck work) might be found.
I would truly welcome your input.
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