PROVENANCE
Galerie Bernard Desroches, Montréal
Succession importante, Montréal

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
John Porter et Mario Béland, Antoine Plamondon (1804-1895) - Jalons d’un parcours artistique, 2005, reproduit pages 48-49

EXPOSITION
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Antoine Plamondon (1804-1895) - Jalons d’un parcours artistique, 24 novembre 2005 au 9 avril 2006, catalogue #49, en tournée à l’Art Gallery of Windsor; la Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; Musée McCord d’histoire canadienne, Montréal; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Galerie d’art de Hamilton; Galerie d’art Beaverbrook, Fredericton, de 2006 à 2008

Antoine Plamondon began his career as a teenager in Québec City, apprenticing under the painter Joseph Légaré in 1819. He would go on to study in Paris between 1826-1830, working under the court painter Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (himself a pupil of the celebrated Jacques-Louis David) and studying works by the Old Masters at the Louvre. On his return to Québec City in 1830, Plamondon quickly established himself as one of the best portrait painters in Lower Canada, painting both secular and religious subjects in a refined Neoclassicism that betrayed his European training.

This painting is a very fine example of the portraits Plamondon produced for the growing Québec bourgeoisie that made up his patrons. The subject is one of the British military officers who lived in the area at the time. Here, the artist emphasizes the beauty of the uniform and the stately poise of the captain. The background of a green velvet curtain is partially parted, revealing a romanticized view of the Québec City, the St. Lawrence and the distant Laurentians - a decidedly continental motif that serves to elevate both the captain and the landscape of Lower Canada.

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