JULES DIDIER (PARIS, 1831-1914) PICADORI ROMAIN DRIVING OXEN, ROME CAMPAIGN Original canvas (Emmanuel Chenoz, rue de Condé 29) Original frame Signed lower left "Jules Didier"; numbered on the frame "270". Roman picadori driving oxen, rome campaign, originals canvas and frame, signed lower left and numbered on the frame "270" 130 x 222 CM - 51,5 x 87,4 IN. PROVENANCE Anonymous sale, Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Le Mouël-Chouffot), 30 September 1995, n° 229. Exhibition Salon of 1869, n° 759. Jules Didier entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1852 and studied under Léon Cogniet and Jules Laurens. He won the Prix de Rome for Historical Landscape in 1857 with Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. He stayed in Italy from 1858 to 1861. He won a medal at the Paris Salon in 1869.