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Painting Normandy Dieppe harbor Naïve art French 20th

Théophile Clément BLANCHARD 1820 - 1849 Oil on canvas 27 x 40 cm (45 x 58 cm with the frame) Signed lower right "Blanchard" Very nice 19th century gilded wooden frame French painter, lithographer and illustrator, Théophile Clément Blanchard is part of of those painters of the romantic era who represented picturesque views of France like Alexis Daligé de Fontenay or Eugène Cicéri. These painters traveled a lot and sought out picturesque sites, particularly in Normandy, Brittany, Switzerland and the Pyrenees. Blanchard participated in the illustration of “Picturesque and Romantic Travels in the Old France”. But the works of this romantic painter are rare because Blanchard died very young at twenty-nine year old ! We still know of him, in particular, a view of Bugey (dated 1846) which is at the Louvre Museum and a “Delicious Landscape” (from the 1840s) at the Salies museum at Bagnères de Bigorre...

Léon COUTURIER Mâcon, 1842 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1935 Oil on canvas 38 x 55cm Signed at lower right “Léon Couturier” First a student at the Lyon School of Fine Arts in 1860, Léon Cou...

French School Honfleur Follower of Frank Myers BOGGS (1855-1926) A pleasing harbour scene depicting Honfleur in Northern France. Painted in an impressionistic style with great spontaneity using the dark brooding colour palette reminiscent of the work of Frank Boggs. Honfleur was the centre of a small artist’s colony during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Boggs concentrated on painting marine...

'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...