Rating and value of works, drawings, paintings by Guillaume Fouace

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Rating and artist value Guillaume Romain Fouace

Guillaume Romain Fouace is a French painter who belongs to the realism movement and mainly produces portraits and still lifes, paintings as well as watercolor drawings. Today, his works are sold for between €500 and €30,490. In 2008, a still life by Fouace featuring a lobster on a sloping copper plate sold for €24,000. His price is stable.

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Guillaume Romain Fouace's style and technique

Guillaume Romain Fouace draws his inspiration from artists of the 17th and 18th centuries. He pays tribute to the works of great still-life masters such as the French Jean Siméon Chardin and the Nordic painter Pieter Claesz, in an academic and realistic style. His repertoire includes a wide range of still-life subjects, from seafood and shellfish to metallic glassware, and a refined transparency evocative of Dutch still-life, particularly early paintings from the Northern schools.

Guillaume Romain Fouace also paints genre scenes with a familiar, everyday air. In this case, he calls on the viewer to identify with the characters in his paintings of everyday life, painting authentic fishing and hunting scenes.

The life of Guillaume Romain Fouace

Born in the hamlet of Jonville in Réville, Guillaume Romain Fouace grew up in the countryside, which quickly gave him a taste for drawing. At first, he was inspired by boats and animals, while young watercolorists gave him his first lessons. Noticed by the town councillor and curator of the Cherbourg museum, he painted the latter's portrait and was rewarded with a scholarship to continue his artistic training in Paris. In 1867, Guillaume Romain Fouace entered the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and benefited from the teachings of painter Adolphe Yvon. Fouace began to earn his living with a fair number of portraits in the years 1871-1872, but still life soon became his signature.

In the 1850s, still lifes came back into fashion. Flemish and Dutch models were much in demand. However, critics and salons continued to view the genre with condescension. From 1870, Guillaume Romain Fouace regularly exhibited his work at the Salon. His participation in the Paris Salons of 1870 and 1872 established his reputation as a portraitist. However, it was not until the 1873 Salon that his still lifes came to public attention.

Over the course of his twenty-four-year artistic career, Guillaume Fouace took part in twenty Parisian Salons at the Palais de l'Industrie. During this period, historical and even religious painting evolved in favor of representations of daily life, the street, the countryside and the world of workers and farmers, while landscape painting occupied a growing place at the Salon. Guillaume Fouace exhibited abroad in the 1880s and regularly from 1890 until his death. From 1883, he exhibited at the Crystal Palace in Munich. 

Guillaume Romain Fouace's imprint on his era  

Guillaume Fouace occasionally took an intimate look at his family. However, this view of childhood and family intimacy never achieved the prominence in Fouace's work that it had in the work of Millet, Renoir or Berthe Morisot. He was more interested in the worlds of peasants, fishermen and craftsmen for the beauty of the traditions they represented.

Since the French Revolution, few painters had taken an interest in the still-life genre, which was considered to be fairly minor. Throughout his career, Guillaume Fouace sought to establish himself in a wide variety of genres, including landscapes, portraits and genre scenes. Yet it was always for his still lifes that he was recognized.

Recognizing the artist's signature

Guillaume Romain Fouace signs his works at the bottom of his canvases with his name and the initial of his first name in a relatively fluid, rounded script.

Knowing the value of a work

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