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The famous painters of Normandy

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Gustave Jacques Hamelin (1809-1895). He started the Art school in 1831 and was the pupil of Ingres. He exhibited at the Salon from 1852 to 1874. E.B./G. The Eugène Boudin Museum Honfleur keeps : Pêcheurs débarquant le poisson / fishermen loading off fish, 1857 (Ill) among 19 preserved works.

 

Henri Joseph Harpignies (1819-1916) Painter of landscapes and painter in watercolours. Studied under Jean Achard (1807-1884). Anatole France named him the Michel-Angel of the trees.

Fernand Herbo (1905-1995). " Herbo deserves unquestionably to be remembered as one of these Maîtres of the twentieth century .../.. in 1950 by the Salon des Indépendants, to which he always remained faithful, he presented a port, which was very noticed... " E.B./G. Painter of Montmartre, he set up in Honfleur where his wife recently was still managing a bar, also a tobacconist's and fishing articles shop : le Bar des Artistes today named le Bistrot des Artistes!.. The ceiling decorated by Fernand Herbo is still worth the trip. (14 Place Pierre Berthelot). Among 23 works preserved by the Eugène Boudin Museum one can see : Conflans-Sainte-Honorine,1942 - les roulottes à Aubervilliers 1970

Louis Adolphe Hervier (1818-1879) Painter, draftsman, watercolorist, engraver and lithographer. Pupil of Cogniet and E. Isabey. In « the almost sociological angle of attack » from which he apprehends the model, he takes like Cals, a sympathizing, modest look, as moved in front of humble realities ../.. Y. Bayard. The Louvre museum - Département des Arts Graphiques - preserves ; Bateaux à sec, sur la grève

Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (1803-1886). Genre, seascape, watercolorist painter and lithographer. Son and pupil of the draftsman and miniaturist painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1865). One of the most charming Maître of the Romanticism period of 1830 .../. he proceeds especially of Delacroix and Bonington .../. of this time date Isabey's numerous paintings, notably, extremely fine and delicate grey tint indoor paintings .../. he produced many watercolours; some of them can be considered as announcing the impressionism. .../. A Curtis: in E.B./G. From 1824 Isabey stays in Honfleur with the maître Xavier Leprince (1799-1826) and settles down at Saint Siméon in 1826. He exhibits in 1827 to the Parisian Painting Contest Le Salon some works of the coast of Grâce; the same year E. Isabey meets Paul Huet (1803-1869), in 1843; Boudin. The E. Boudin Museum preserves two works of the artist. Ill) L'épave, 1851. Oil on canvas 32x23cm. Gift Katia Granoff, 1958. Musée Eugène Boudin. > Le port à marée basse, 1866 planalto.gov.br > Plage à marée basse - Sainte-Adresse ?  > Église et maisons à Honfleur, drawing - The Louvre Museum.

Johan or Jean-Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) Dutch realist painter. Studied under Andreas Schelfhout.(1787-1870). He visits Normandy before 1855 with Eugène Isabey. In 1860 Camille Corot helps him to settle down in Paris. From 1862 till 1865 during his stays in Honfleur, at the Saint-Siméon farmhouse, J.B. Jongkind meets Claude Monet who becomes his pupil, Eugène Boudin and Charles Baudelaire... The E. Boudin Museum preserves six works of the artist. « What strikes me is the influence of this Jongkind. Every landscape which has a value at this moment is descended from this painter, copies his skies, his atmospheres, his lands.» Edmond de Goncourt in his Diary in 1882. > Honfleur, Entrance to the port The Louvre Museum. Honfleur,1865 Met. Honfleur harbour low tide watercolour. Honfleur harbour, 1864. Saint-Catherine the bell tower. Self portrait, Sunshine. Montmartre August 1850. Louvre Graph Arts Dept.

 

Celso Lagar (1891 Cindad-Rodrigo / Salamanque-1966 Seville) Spanish School. Painter, Lithographer and sculptor. At first pupil of his father woodcarver, since the youngest age, he enters the Art college of Madrid in the studio of the sculptor Blay. In Paris in 1911, then he began to paint. Established in France, this artist also exhibits in Spain. One owes him also sights of ports and navies, but he attempted especially to describe the life coloured with the fairground entertainers .../. Max Jacob introduced some of his exhibitions, Modigliani made his portrait. E.B./G He is one of the founders of the " Salon of Surindépendants ". He stops painting in 1955. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves: Honfleur, le quai de l'Hôtel de Ville (ill.) and les roulottes devant la chapelle de l'hôpital.

Charles Lapostolet 1824-1890. Marine Painter and landscape painter. Pupil of Cogniet, at the same time as Dubourg, he meets Boudin in Honfleur and forms a friendship with him. He studies with rightness the atmosphere saturated by humidity and the brilliant effects with a nervous, suggestive or more descriptive touch according to the subjects. Open skies studied with sharpness invade his painting A-M. Bergeret-Gourbin. Curator of the Museum Eugène Boudin: catalogue of the Exhibition Honfleur before Impressionism 1991. Pierre Miquel places Charles Lapostolet among the best seascape painters. The E. Boudin museum keeps one work of Charles Lapostolet.

Albert Lebourg (1849-1928) From the School of Rouen, close to the impressionists he exhibited with them in 1879 and 1880. In 1903 he is promoted chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in honour of : Côte Sainte-Catherine, Snow effect exposed at Hanoï. The E. Boudin Museum preserves : bords de la Seine à Muids / the edges of the Seine (Ill) and a self-portrait in pencil. > l'exposition Impressionniste de1879

Eugène Ernest Edmond Le Marcis, comte (1829-1900). Painter, born in le Havre, on April 4th, 1829, died in Paris on 1900, January 4th. Inspired by the great poem of Dante, he decided to devote his life to fix it on the canvas. He learned the rudimentary painting in the studio of Ary Scheffer and in Italy where he reproduced Michel-Angel .../. EB/G.

Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine (1835-1892). Pupil of Corot, specialized in the reproduction of the Seine’s banks, of which he returned all the animated life and all the poetry ./... Lépine was one of the Maîtres of the landscape on XIX th century who prepared the way to the impressionists and who began to educate the public in a more synthetic vision of the nature. The impressionists did not ignore his merits and invited him to exhibited during their exhibition of 1874. Raymond Cogniat: Diction of the Modern Painting (Hazan 54)

Xavier Auguste Leprince (1799-1826). Landscape and genre painter son of the painter Anne Pierre Le Prince and brother of Robert Léopold (1800-1847) & Gustave (1810-1837). The E. Boudin museum preserves a painting attributed to Xavier Leprince: expressing the spirit of adventure of the painters travelling all over the country. In this work, painters and geographers sketch nature, as Baugean has done it from 1817 till 1819. A sight of Honfleur painted by Baugean shows this time. A-M. Bergeret-Gourbin, Curator of the E Boudin Museum. The Louvre, Paris, preserves of Xavier Leprince: Embarquement de bestiaux à Honfleur sur le Passager, 1823.

Henri-Charles Manguin (1874-1949). Being painted to Honfleur in 1911 and 1920. In the collections of the Eugene Boudin Museum, Manguin signs an Indian ink representing Toulon in 1927.

Albert or Pierre-Albert Marquet (1875-1947) Stays and paints in 1907 and 1934 in le Havre. In 1911 in Honfleur. In 1912 and 1927 in Rouen. In 1930 to Boulogne sur mer > le Havre Bastille day Georges Braque, Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy create in 1905 with Albert Marquet the circle of the Modern Art intended to promote the art, the music and the poetry. " Nobody, by means more concise and more infallible, returned the atmosphere of a day of snow or of a rainy evening on the quays of Paris ". Louis Gillet. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves:la route de Percaillerie / the road of Percaillerie painted by Albert Marquet in 1901. > Affiches / posters at / à Trouville, 1906 The National Gallery of Art, Washington.

F. Martin, also by the name of le père Martin, was the trader and the support of the painters of Barbizon and Saint-Siméon who he brought together in his shop. He was ahead of Paul Durand-Ruel in the gallery of which he organized in 1874, as a temporary manager of the cooperative, the first impressionistic exhibition.

Georges Michel (1763-1843) Landscape painter. He asked the open air for his only motives for inspiration. It is not without reason that one was able to say about him that he was the father of the modern landscape. He was the first one among the painters of Montmartre .../. E.B./G. The E. Boudin Museum preserves one work of the artist: les Roches Noires. > Images Joconde database

 

Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926). Painter of landscapes, figures and compositions, born in Paris, died in Giverny. He is raised in Havre. In 1858, as a young caricaturist, he meets Eugène Boudin.         Boudin reveals painting to Claude Monet and he advises him to paint according to nature : Let paint landscape, sea and skies are so beautiful, animals, people and trees such as the nature did them with their character, their true way in the light, in the air, such as they are. Monet writes : I had seen some of his painting and I prefer to say to you that I found it hideous .../. I agreed to go to work outdoors with him .../. There we left for Rouelles, without much conviction for my part. Boudin set up his easel and started to work. I looked at him more attentively and then it was as a veil that tears: I had understood, I had seized what painting could be .../. if I became a painter .../. I owe it to. G. Jean-Aubry. Jongkind continues the education of the future master in Normandy. Jongkind was shown my sketches, he invited me to come to work with him, explained to me the whys and wherefores of his way and so completing the education which I had already received from Boudin, from this moment he became my true Master. I owe him the definitive education of my eye J. Rewald - Histoire de l'Impressionnisme - Editions Livre de Poche. Eugène Boudin advises him to go studying in Paris and recommends him to some of his friends: Constant Troyon and Charles Monginot (1825-1900). Paris will be for Monet neither the Art college not the studios but free work at the Suisse Academy (by the name of the founder: M. Suisse) and the attentive listening of the theorists of the realism at the brasserie of the Martyrs. (Ill) Honfleur, le clocher Sainte-Catherine, circa 1867 - portrait d'Eugène Boudin c1859. Gifts M. Michel Monet, 1964. The Eugene Boudin Museum Honfleur. L. Manchon, c1856, caricature MBA Rouen. > Honfleur Towing a boat 1864. Magart Rochester. > Le Bassin du Commerce, Le Havre 1874 Mamac & Ced. > Le Musée des Beaux-Arts du Havre, 1873. La Pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse, 1864. La plage de Trouville, 1870. National Gallery Londres. > La vague verte, c1865 Dr. Leclenché / possibly the physicist Georges or Maurice Leclanché - Saint-Siméon, 1864 - & Terrasse à Sainte-Adresse Met.

Charles Mozin

Jacques François Ochard (1800-1870). Draftsman, Claude Monet studied under Ochard. Curator of the Museum of Havre.

Charles François Pécrus (1826-1907). Genre painter and seascape painter. Pupil of Fichet and Javet. He had collaborated with N. Diaz at Barbizon, then he became the friend of Eugène Boudin, also knowing Jongkind and Alfred Stevens .../. having given remarkable portraits, one prefers generally the landscape, the marine, and animal painter that he became later, probably under the influence of Diaz, Jongkind and especially Eugène Boudin, who held him in respect and possessed of its works, which will be bequeathed to Honfleur's museum Portrait of Madame Eugène Boudin and Madame Sporck (Ill) .../. E.B./G. The Eugène. Boudin Museum preserves among others works: les lavandières au bord de la Touques / the washerwomen at the river Touques.

Émile Renouf (1845-1894) Painter of marine & genre. Studied under Boulanger, Lefebvre and Charles Duran (Carolus-Duran). Golden medal in the World Fair of 1889. The E. Boudin Museum preserves ten works of the artist.

Théodule Augustin Ribot (1823-1891) Painter of history, genre portrait, of still lives and etcher. As a friend of Boudin, he was one of the founders of the show of the Champ de Mars; having appeared among the denied painters (Salon des refusés) of 1859 with A. Legros , Fantin-Latour , Whistler ... all gathered in a common admiration for Courbet and a will of realism, not taking however the way of the open air. > Joconde database. The E. Boudin Museum preserves a work of the artist.

Jules Charles Rozier (1821-1882) Painter of Landscapes and etcher. Pupil of Bertin and Delaroche. To the Salon from 1839 till 1882 he exhibited some sights of the edges of the Seine and seascapes, in the tone silver grey.

Henri de Saint-Delis

Salon : The official exhibition of the painters, members or approved by the Academy, since 1667 under the administration of Louis XV, presented to the Royal Palace, then in the Large Gallery of the Louvre, takes its name in the Square Lounge (le Salon carré) of the Louvre Palace in 1725. It becomes free in 1791, before being supervised in 1798, by a board for admittance stemming from the Institute, and, in 1881, by that of the Society of the French Artists. It is presented to le Palais de l'Industrie / the Palace of the Industry created on the occasion of the World Fair of 1855, and replaced after its destruction by the Grand Palais from 1900. The inflexible academicism of the jury provokes the creation of other exhibitions, in the 18th century Exposition de la Jeunesse / Exhibition of the Youth - Salon de l'Académie de Saint-Luc / Show of Saint Luc's academy - Salon de la Correspondance / Show of the Correspondence. But shows especially appear, being organized in reaction to the Salon officiel de Paris / official Show : the Salon des Refusés / Show of the Rejected/Refused, in 1863 authorized by Napoleon the third at the same time as the official Show in another section of the Palace of the Industry. Next exhibition in 1873 - Salon des Impressionnistes / Show of the Impressionists from 1874 till 1886. - The exhibitions of the big dealers of art are also making the history : Nadar, Goupil, Durand-Ruel, Vollard - Salon des Indépendants / Show of the Independents since 1884 and still a topical event. The official shows are always an absolutely compulsory route for the French artists. Catalogs accompany these shows, the first booklet dates 1673. In the press, comments and criticisms are signed in 18th and 19th century: Diderot, Baudelaire Aesthetic Curiosities , Goncourt brothers, René Joseph Ménard Gustave Planche and Zola's Journal ...

Alexandre Schann / Schanne, painter composer musician. Schannard or Schaunard of the Scenes of the life of Bohemia of Henri Murger (1822-1861) at first in serial in the Parisian newspaper le Corsaire. He was depicted about such as he was.

Georges Seurat

Jean Souverbie (1891-1981). Painter of compositions, nude and still lives. Studied under J-P. Laurens and Maurice Denis. Being interested in the aesthetics of Nabis; his art ensues from the French Cubism of which he has especially learned the return to the rule and the well-balanced composition. He paints numerous works for passenger ships, between 1945 and 1951 and stays, the summer, in Honfleur at the Cheval Blanc Inn. The Eugène Boudin Museum keeps two of the works of the artist.

Nicolas de Staël (1914/1913 Russian calendar-1955) French School. Painter, engraver, born in Saint-Petersburg. André Fermingler: " ... No painter had such a gift to summarize a shape, to seize it from the inside, to render sensitive at the same moment its substance and its appearance... Stunning of atmospheric truth, the skies, the horizons of Mantes, of Honfleur, " Figures by the sea ", the trees of the " Parc de Sceaux ", exceptional masterpieces , achieve the Cézanne's dream with regard to the impressionism... " In Jacques Busse E.B.

Alexandre Thiollet (1824-1895) Landscape, marine and genre painter. Pupil of Drolling and R. Fleury. The Eugène Boudin Museum preserves two works of the artist.

Constant Troyon (1810 1865). Painter of landscapes and animals. He worked with his father, his godfather and the painter Emile Van Marcke De Lummen or van Marek (1827-1890) on the Manufacture de Sèvres. Frankness of the values and the always observed degradation of the effects of the light are qualities shown in the painter works .../. E.B./G. In 1854, Troyon, become very rich, acquires a house in Villers-sur-Mer (Calvados) which he names the Academy of the Landscape. J-S. Klein. > The cows at Suresnes, the Louvre Museum > Vue des rives de la Seine, watercolour. Graphical Arts section - prints and drawings - the Louvre Museum.& Joconde database

Félix Edouard Vallotton (1865-1925) From the School of Rouen, close to impressionists he exhibited with them in 1879 and 1880. In 1903 he is promoted chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in honour of : "Côte Sainte-Catherine, Snow effect " exposed at Hanoï. The Eugène Boudin museum keeps of Albert Lebourg's work: Muids, the edges of the Seine (Ill) and a self-portrait in pencil. > Voiliers à Honfleur,1913 MBA Bordeaux.

Jacques Villon, alias of Gaston Duchamp (1875-1963) French School. Painter and engraver. Grandson of the painter and engraver from Rouen, Emile Nicolle. Brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and of Suzanne Roger. The Eugène Boudin museum preserves one Jacques Villon's work. Pictures from the School of Rouen > Galerie Michel Bertran.