biographie de Victor DUBREUIL (act.c.1886-1900)

Addresses: Active in NYC, 1880-1910

Profession: Still life and portrait painter

Work: Shelburne (VT) Mus.

Comments: Still-life painter whose favorite subject was money. He depicted bills overflowing in barrels, stacks of coins, single dollar bills, and even bank robbers stealing money. Little is known of his biography.

Sources: Gerdts and Burke, 158; Bruce Chambers, Old Money: American Trompe-L'Oeil Images of Currancy (exh. cat., Berry-Hill Gals., New York, 1988); American Paintings from the Masco Corporation (auction cat., Sotheby's, NYC, Dec. 3, 1998), no. 89.; Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum, 59 (w/repro.); Baigell, Dictionary