COENE Constantin-Fidèle
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Oil on canvas: 38.5 x 44.5 cm / 15.1 x 17.5 in
Signed lower left on the wheelbarrow
Painter of genre scenes and historical subjects; engraver and lithographer.
Constantin-Fidèle Coene was a pupil of van Assche and Faber in Brussels and of Barbiers in Amsterdam (1800).
In 1820 he was made a professor in Brussels.
Coene was an excellent painter of genre scenes.
Period:
Vilvorde (Brussels) 1779 - Brussels 1841
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Brussels
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 109.