Works inspired by Brittany

View of Saint-Pol-de-Léon

Louise-Joséphine SARAZIN DE BELMONT (1790-1870)

1837

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Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont (1790-1870) Vue de Saint-Pol-de-Léon, 1837, huile sur toile, 62 x 90,5 cm © musée des beaux-arts de Quimper

Oil on canvas

2008-6-1

Acquired in 2009 in the London art market with the help of the Region of Brittany and the Fonds régional d’acquisition pour les musées (FRAM)

H. 62 cm - L. 90,5 cm

This student of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes is one of the best landscape painters of her time, well known for her studies in the open air.  Her trip to Brittany in 1835-1836 was to research new motifs.  In this panoramic work, painted in a studio from open-air studies, she presents an ideal view of the landscape, adding a church steeple to the left to balance the composition, and skilfully painting a genre scene in the foreground close to a washhouse that never existed in this location. 

Works inspired by Brittany

View of Saint-Pol-de-Léon

Louise-Joséphine SARAZIN DE BELMONT (1790-1870)

1837

Enlarge picture jpg 202Ko (See the caption hereafter) (modal window)
Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont (1790-1870) Vue de Saint-Pol-de-Léon, 1837, huile sur toile, 62 x 90,5 cm © musée des beaux-arts de Quimper

Oil on canvas

2008-6-1

Acquired in 2009 in the London art market with the help of the Region of Brittany and the Fonds régional d’acquisition pour les musées (FRAM)

H. 62 cm - L. 90,5 cm

This student of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes is one of the best landscape painters of her time, well known for her studies in the open air.  Her trip to Brittany in 1835-1836 was to research new motifs.  In this panoramic work, painted in a studio from open-air studies, she presents an ideal view of the landscape, adding a church steeple to the left to balance the composition, and skilfully painting a genre scene in the foreground close to a washhouse that never existed in this location. 

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