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"inscription": "Signed lower left: [?] Aligny [false] / [mostly covered signature a little further to the right:] Ponthvs cinier \r\nDistinguishing marks on reverse: handwritten on stretcher: C'Aligny Vue d'Italie; handwritten label: Aligny / Paysage dans le Midi de la France / 1; French customs stamp\r\n",
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"description": "Montpellier, La Salle des Concerts. Livret explicatif des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin et lithographie (1849), no. 27, Cinier (Ponthus) Vue du Ch\u00e2teau vieux, sur les bords du Suran (Ain.).",
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"description": "London sale, Sotheby's, 20 July 1977 (lot 142, repr.), as Th\u00e9odore Caruelle d'Aligny, An Italian Landscape.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1980.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163\u2013219. Published as: Attributed to Theodore Caruelle d'Aligny",
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"biography": "Until 1980 the only known facts about Ponthus-Cinier were to be found in Audin and Vial's Dictionnaire des artistes et ouvriers d'art du lyonnais (1918-19). Two exhibitions of the work of nineteenth-century Lyonese landscape painters in the early 1980s prompted more thorough research into the life of this artist.1 Although he was born in Lyons, Ponthus-Cinier seems to have studied at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, enrolled in the studio of Delaroche (q.v.).2 In 1841 he received the second Prix de Rome for historical landscape painting and left for Italy for two years. Returning to France in 1844, he settled in Lyons but spent his entire life roaming France in search of sites of natural beauty that would remind him of Italy. He left numerous views of Alpine landscapes, and of Savoie, the Dauphin\u00e9, Ard\u00e8che, the Massif Central, and the Pyrenees. He had a special preference, however, for the regions close to Lyons-the Dombes, the Bugey, and the Ain, as well as the town of Cr\u00e9mieu and its surroundings, which Appian (q.v.) and Ravier (q.v.) would later depict. Ponthus-Cinier exhibited in Lyons from 1838 until his death and in Paris from 1841 to 1867. He also participated in various provincial Salons in cities like Strasbourg, Grenoble, Marseilles, Montpellier, and Toulouse. Ponthus-Cinier was especially fond of depicting landscapes characterized by the combination of rocky slopes, which structured the site, and vegetation, which animated it. Frequently a body of water, reflecting the light, provided a poetic note to these somewhat arid views made up of earth and stone. The artist's work was usually well received by critics, although some reproached him for the monotony of his compositions and choice of color.",
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