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The famous painters of Normandy

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Jean Alexis Achard (1807-1884) Painter and engraver. He took advantage of advices of his friend Corot and Français and achieved an expression full of poetry and delicacy. Achard was the maître of Harpignies .../. Emmanuel Bénèzit E.B/G. The Eugene Boudin Museum preserves one work of the artist.

Henri Charles Antoine Baron (1816-1885). Began in the - Salon - show of 1840. It is necessary to connect Baron at the romantic school; he proceeds of Diaz, Dévéredia and Couture.

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) In January (1859) Baudelaire visits his mother in Honfleur and then makes up with her. He writes several poems during his stay. In February (1859) Baudelaire sends Le Voyage (last journey), to Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894), which he has written in Honfleur. Report of the Painting Show of 1859 by Charles Baudelaire about Eugène Boudin's works: .../. These studies, so quickly and so faithfully sketched from what is the most fickle and the most imperceptible in its force and its colour, from the waves and the clouds, have always written in their margin the date, the hour and the wind: for example, October 8th , noon, wind of Northwest. If you sometimes have the time to experience these meteorological beauties, you would verify by memory the exactness of Mr Boudin's observations. The key hidden with the hand, you would guess the season, the hour and the wind. I exaggerate nothing. I saw. At the end, all these clouds in the fantastic and brilliant forms, these chaotic darkness, these suspended and added the one to the others green and pink immensities, these gaping volcanoes, these firmaments of black or purple and crumpled, rolled or torn satin, these horizons in mourning or flowing of melted metal, all these depths, all this magnificence went up to my brain as a heady drink or as the eloquence of opium ./... Curiosités Esthétiques Salon de 1859. VIII. Le Paysage / Aesthetic Curiosities show of 1859. VIII. The Landscape. gallica.bnf.fr  (Ill) E. Boudin Nuages blancs circa 1854/59, detail, pastel drawing. The Eugène Boudin Museum. Gift Eugène Boudin. > Skies and sea; Ciel nuageux Etude de ciel avec des nuages blancs Etude de ciel au soleil couchant Etude de nuages Etude de nuages II Etude de nuages III Etude de ciel Etude de ciel II Etude d'un ciel chargé Etude d'un ciel chargé II Etude de cieux ... Département des Arts Graphiques / Graphical Arts section - prints and drawings - the Louvre Museum.

Jean Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) Pupil at Gleyre's studio he will leave it at the closure. With Monet he discovers the work outdoors. .../. Good friend he shared his tubes of paint with Renoir. He posed for Monet (twice /Déjeuner sur l'herbe) working by himself between the poses .../. Gaston Poulain in EB/G. In1864 at Sainte-Adresse (Havre) and Honfleur he paints la côte près de Honfleur / the coast near Honfleur, la cour de l'auberge Saint-Siméon / the Saint-Simeon yard and a still live: stock cover. J.S.Klein pg 74. > Images Joconde database

Auguste Henri Berthoud (1829-1887). Landscape painter and engraver born in Paris or Neuchâtel on April 20th, 1829, died in the spring of 1887 in Neuchâtel. This artist was a pupil of the Art school of Paris in the studio of Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) and Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870); his principal Master was Corot, whose close friend he was. In 1852 he settled in Lausanne. The museum of Neufchâtel (Swiss) preserves inter alia works of the artist: In Honfleur. EB/G

Amédée Besnus (1831-1909) Landscape painter and etcher. Being formed at the school of Vassor and Léon Cogniet. In the collection of the Eugene Boudin Museum: A Saint-Siméon.

 

  Eugène Boudin — Saint Siméon — Normandy — Biography

  Skies and sea — The Joconde database

  (Ill) Le Pardon de Sainte-Anne-la-Palud 1858.

  Detail. Oil on canvas 78 x 155 cm. Musée Malraux le Havre. > studies;

  Le pardon de Sainte-Anne-la-Palud and Tentes dressées:

  esquisse pour la pardon de Sainte-Anne-la-Palud

   Dept Arts Graph The Louvre Museum

 

George Braque (1882-1963). " He entered the Art College of le Havre, where he became the friend of his ancestors Dufy and Friesz, in Charles-Marie Lhullier's studio, old Norman painter, who had known Jongkind and Boudin.../. Having painted in an impressionist way, as his friend Friesz, this one reunited him in the aesthetics Fauvist which he elaborated since 1905 with Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain... " Jacques Busse E.B./G.

Cadart : In the years 1860, Cadart succeeded F. Martin. He especially buys watercolours, but also exhibition paintings. In 1866, he leaves for the United States, in order to sell works.

Adolphe-Félix Cals (Paris 1810 - Honfleur 1880). Studied under J L Anselin and L Cogniet. From 1871 Cals shared his life between Paris and Honfleur. The friendship with Jongkind when he settles down in Honfleur (1873), and his relations with the painters of the artistic circle of Saint-Simeon, place him among the precursors of the impressionism with works as "Soleil couchant à Honfleur" in 1873 or "Déjeuner à Honfleur" in 1875 / le déjeuner à Honfleur. (Orsay Museum).../. he took part in the exhibitions of the Impressionists, from the first in 1874 .../. E.B./G. The E. Boudin Museum preserves five portraits painted by Cals: Mr and Mrs Martin, Firmin Martin the painting dealer of the pre-impressionist and Barbizon's painters. Cals who has a keen understanding of the portraits, let show through the soul of the model : sweetness and kindness of Claudine, anxiety and pain of his daughter .../. A-M. Bergeret-Gourbin.

  That for more than twenty five years the best critics proclaim that Adolphe Félix Cals is the real inventor of the impressionism changes nothing to his deficit of fame. The term has little sense in the art history, however Cals very empirically finalized this short, regular and especially transparent touch which reproduces the vibrations of the grey - blue light and gives this feeling of space and freedom .../. Cals is the oldest of the generation which he is associated with. He is born in 1810. This is why, in his solitary, modest and creative collection of the meditative impressions, so close to Monet of the 80s among Etretat and Giverny, he establishes the undervalued link between Corot and the full brilliant impressionism .../. As Courbet, Huet, Corot and Monet, Cals definitely belongs to this trend of the painting which tries to transcribe this physics of elements, so obvious in Normandy, as essential as the capture of the light.../. Cals writes a lot and his letters say to us to what point, by painting, he is an actor of life « I create a work of consciousness, and this work, which makes me happy, hurts nobody and always has a small relative value. There is no art where there is no heart. Nature is an inexhaustible collection, which the artist should unceasingly search in, to find there the means to express the feeling which torments him and which is a witness of his own nature, which inclines him to everything with love. Oh! What a life, in spite of all these setbacks! I only wish to paint » letter to Arsène Alexandre .../. Alain Tapié.

Eugène Louis Charpentier (1811-1890) Painter of history and genre. Pupil of Gérard and Léon Cogniet.

Gustave Henri Colin (1828-1910 or 1911or 1919) Painter. Landscape painter. Pupil of Dutillieux and Thomas Couture. he began in the show of1857. He participated in the Salon des Refusés in 1863. Then he exposed regularly to the Salon of Paris until the foundation of la Nationale. He was from the beginning a member of the Nouveau Groupement Artistique

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Corot tells that one of the watercolours of Bonington, briefly seen in a shop, fascinated it and rather than a commission agent he was, made a painter of him. Pupil of the neo-classic landscape painters Michallon then Bertin. He will paint all his life the landscape according to nature. The example of the Dutch masters of the 17th century and the painters of English open air, teaches him to capture the atmospheric variations. .../. Arrived at his mature expression Daubigny will say to him: " Don't complain: you put nothing on your canvas and there is everything! " ./... If he admired Courbet without reserve, he badly understood J-F. Millet, saying " that his lunch bag agreed badly with this classical music " ./... one can regret that the painter who had produced the admirable study of Narni's bridge, in which all the modern technique seems summarized, understood nothing to artists such as Manet and Monet. But focus only on the painter. Théodore Rousseau said that only " the sons of the light " are worthy of the name of artists: In that case nobody deserved it more than Corot .../. E.B./G. > Honfleur, the Calvary, côte de Grâce & mezzo-mondo - Trouville. Bateau échoué, dit Bateau de pêche à marée basse - Maisons de pêcheurs à Sainte-Adresse - le Havre. La mer vue du haut des falaises. Cartelfr / the Louvre Museum & Trouville bateaux de pêche échoués dans le chenal / sailboats stranded, circa 1830, musée d'Orsay. Honfleur, the old wharf - ? - c1824-25. The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence - image Webshots.

Maurice François Auguste Courant (1847-1925) Painter of marine and landscape. Pupil of Meissonier. he began in the show in 1870. Museum of Rouen.

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Landscape painter. Painter of portraits and genre. Pupil of Flajoulot in Besançon, de Steuben and Hesse in Paris. The Courbet's first paintings are inspired by the most literary romanticism: an Odalisque according to Victor Hugo, Leila inspired by Georges Sand. From the Saint-Siméon farmhouse at Honfleur and its neighbourhood, Courbet paints his seascapes in 1841, 1859 and 1865. With Eugène Boudin they form a sturdy friendship. The assurance and the haughtiness of Courbet stimulate Eugène Boudin. Eugène Boudin will remain faithful to Courbet imprisoned after the events of the Commune, considered as responsible of the destruction of the (Paris) Vendôme Column, while his remaining friends are numbered. In Saint-Pelagie jail Courbet will paint from memory: marine, gros temps, 1871. The E. Boudin Museum preserves: Soleil couchant sur l'estuaire, 1859. > notices & images Joconde among which; Honfleur l'embouchure de la Seine / Honfleur, the mouth of the river Seine Museum of the city of Lille & La mer orageuse, dit aussi La vague/ the wave.

Thomas Couture (1815 1879). Painter of history and genre. Pupil of Gros then of P. Delaroche. Millet, Manet, Feuerbach and Puvis de Chavannes was his pupils. He made Georges Sand's portrait, the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

Adolphe Couveley or Couvelet painter, born in Charleville (Ardennes) in 1805 (Thieme-Becker indicates: décembre 1802, died in Le Havre). Son of Jean-Baptist (1772-1832). He was a director of the Museum of le Havre and he obtained a third class medal in 1849 and was made chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1859. This artist enjoyed to travel. He exhibited in the Salon from 1834 to 1866. He visited England, Turkey, Greece. The museum of le Havre preserves several of his works and a drawing of the Directoire period, by his father, Jean-Baptist. EB/G. He presided, undoubtedly more than it does appear, over the training of Boudin. L Manoeuvre.

Victor Marie Félix Danvin (1802-1842) Pupil of Guérin, Lethière and Rémond. Began in the show in 1831 Museums: Montpelier the edges of the Seine - Nancy the Mont-Saint-Michel The E. Boudin Museum preserves one work of the artist.

Charles François Daubigny (1817 1878). Painter, landscape painter and engraver. He belonged to a painter family ; he studied first of all with his father Edmé François Daubigny. At the death of his mother (the painter and the miniaturist Amélie Daubigny, been born Dautel), in the age of 17 years, he left to Italy and dedicated one year to the visit of the main museums. On returning to Paris he was trained on the restoration at the museum of le Louvre until 1838; then he earned his keep with illustrations and drawings for engraving (wood cut). He made his name as an engraver and exposed etchings to Salon of 1841 and 1845. The painter's reputation began to assert itself from 1844. He made built a barge named: Botin*- the studio boat - where he lived and worked investigating the Seine. The paintings which followed each other achieved a great success. The criticism perfectly knew how to disentangle what should be for Daubigny's credit : its technical qualities, its sincerity, its truth, the coolness and the liveliness of its tones, the flow of the atmosphere, the simplicity of the motives ./... the new greenery, the transparency of the water. All this is of Daubigny ./... At least he stands by painting what he sees and especially what he feels, what tends to do of him more still than an initiator, an impressionist literally .../. There is some Robinson recollection on Sundays, with young ladies in fresh hat, boats on the Seine, parasols covering clear napes. The ideal of the "shop girl" nevertheless heightens in the dignity of an artist who is a Maître .../. Emmanuel-Charles Benezit. E.B./G. The E. Boudin Museum preserves one work of C-F Daubigny and one work of his son Karl. > musée d'Orsay Le pré des Graves, à Villerville > musée du Louvre Les Graves de Villerville. * Le Botin. Le bateau-atelier. Coucher à bord du Botin. Drawings from the book l' Album du voyage en bateau - le Botin -, circa 1857

Karl Charles Pierre Daubigny (1846 1886). Son and pupil of Charles-François Daubigny. He painted landscapes of Normandy and the forest of Fontainebleau. A premature death did not allow him to give the full measure of its talent .../. E.B./G. > Paysage de bord de mer or Honfleur: Saint-Siméon.

Narcisse Virgile Diaz De La Peña. (1807-1876) Landscape and genre painter. You never knew anything, said to him Tomas Couture, you know only one road of the nature: the forest of Fontainebleau (Barbizon) E.B./G. > musée du Louvre

Kees van Dongen or C. van Dongen (1877-1968). Painter and illustrator. He exhibits in Autumn Shows at Berthe Weill and at Druet in Paris before becoming his own trader. Painter of the upper middle class he frequents Deauville and there realizes sights and portraits: The beach at Deauville - Petit Palais, Geneva and Deauville, the steamboat of Havre, circa 1920 - Mus. Nat. of Art Mod. Paris. The Eugène Boudin museum preserves two Kees van Dongen's works.

Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) Havre. Pupil of Lhuillier in the Art College of le Havre. Pupil in Léon Bonnat's studio in the Art College of Paris, where he will live with Othon Friesz: The Art College, it is good to enter it, on the condition of going out of it. R.D. Marcelle Berr De Turrique in E.B./G. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves of R. Dufy some drawings and three paintings: a self-portrait painted before the fauve period, two landscapes: wheat field in Normandy Saint - Adresse. One watercolour Honfleur, open air market, place Saint - Catherine, 1901.     Jean Dufy (1888-1964) le Havre. He entered the Art College of Havre, where had been pupils his brother Raoul, Friesz and Braque, but he left it early to join his brother in Paris, who was his real master... It is inevitable to compare both brothers: Raoul Dufy often attempts to dissect each of the elements which enter one of its compositions, often funnily or tenderness, at least with acuteness; Jean Dufy is more sensitive to the global panorama of the represented scene... E.B./G

Paul Durand-Ruel (1831- 1922). Dealer of paintings and Parisian collector. Apostle of the Impressionists, he welcomed in his gallery their second show in 1876. He dedicated them exhibitions and organized in 1886 their first exhibition in New York. In Paris, the Durand-Ruel Painting Gallery closed its doors in 1974, in New York in 1950.

Pierre Dumont or Jallot (1884-1936) French school - School of Rouen. Cubist-orphic painter and art critic. Fonder of the XXX and the Société Normande de Peinture with Marcel Duchamp. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves two works of Pierre Dumont.

Camille Flers (1802-1868). Pupil of Pâris. Painter of the school of 1830. Without possessing the width of vision of T. Rousseau, the power of expression of Daubigny, delicious poetic charm of Corot, Camille Flers knew how to translate with sincerity his emotion in front of the nature. E.B./G. >  Paysage, environs de Paris Musée du Louvre

François-Louis Français (1814-1897) " It is a less artless and more cunning Corot. " Baudelaire. In his lifetime his reputation was considerable. One owes him the decoration of the baptismal fonts of the Trinity church in Paris. One can see in the collection of the E. Boudin Museum some works of the artist. > Beaux-Arts Bordeaux Les hêtres de la côte de Grâce près de Honfleur

Othon or Emile-Othon Friesz Achille-Emile-Othon (1879-1949) Havre. Pupil of Lhuillier in the Art College of le Havre and Léon Bonnat. "  In 1937, Friesz was divided with Raoul Dufy one of the decorations of Palais de Chaillot... " André Salmon/E.B./G   The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves:: " portrait de la mère de l'artiste ", circa 1898 / portrait of the mother of the artist and Incendie des pétroles du Havre, 1940 (ill.). Gifts Mme Katia Granoff.. "Le port de Cassis" oil on canvas, 1909. Gift Société des Artistes Honfleurais 2002.

Armand Désiré Gautier or Amand-Gautier (1825-1894) Painter and lithographer. Pupil of Cogniet. Named the painter of the sisters of charity. The E. Boudin Museum preserves one work of the artist.

Paul Elie Gernez (1888-1948) " He spent almost all his life in Honfleur, sometimes joining Jongkind in his observation of the light and the sea... " E.B./G " After the pointillist period, he is inspired towards 1920, by cubism to decompose still lives and landscapes. From this experience, he retained a way to depict firmly these subjects and to give a frame to his compositions which are tinged, maturity reached, with poetry, intimacy and sensuality. " A-M. Bergeret-Gourbin. Curator of the Honfleur's municipal Museum E.B.. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves: Honfleur, le port aux drapeaux, 1937 / the port with the flags - la raccommodeuse / the mender.

Émile Grau-Sala (1911-1975) Spanish School. Painter, decorator and painter in watercolours trained in the Art College of Barcelona. He came in France in 1932. Famous illustrator of Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of the Devil) of Baudelaire, Bel-Ami of Maupassant and Colette: Gigi, the next instalment of Claudine. '' In the indisputable personality of Grau-Sala, the colourer essentially dominates. He uses of clear tones which harmonize in perfectly ordered cadences. '' Paul Sentenac. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves 3 works of Emile Grau-Sala.

Jean-Antoine-Théodore Gudin, baron (1802-1880). Pupil of Girodet-Trioson he undergoes the influence of the romantic School. Museums: Avignon: The entrance to the port of Havre - Caen: The port of Havre, The Côte de Grâce. The E. Boudin Museum preserves one work of the artist. > Dijon : musée Magnin Entrée du port du Havre

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