Rural landscape France
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.
Lucien Adrion was a French post-impressionist painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He is known for his depictions of the French countryside and beaches, as well as of Parisian life, including landscapes, still lifes, figures and landmarks.
Throughout his career, Adrion exhibited his work at the Salons in Paris, where he was praised for his ability to capture the movement and transience of city life.
Auguste Anastasi is a French landscape painter of the Barbizon School.
Auguste Anastasi was a student of Paul Delaroche and Jean-Baptiste Corot. He painted landscapes around Paris, Normandy, Holland and Italy, in Rome and especially in Naples, but also in the Tyrol, of which he also made lithographs.
Lewis "Duke" Baltz was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream". His work is focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz's images describe the architecture of the human landscape: offices, factories and parking lots. His pictures are the reflection of control, power, and influenced by and over human beings. His books and exhibitions, his "topographic work", such as The New Industrial Parks, Nevada, San Quentin Point, Candlestick Point, expose the crisis of technology and define both objectivity and the role of the artist in photographs. He wrote for many journals, and contributed regularly to L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Baltz's work is held in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Modern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art etc.
Ernest-Stanislas Blanc-Garin was a Belgian portrait and landscape painter. He came to Brussels in 1863 and became a student of Jean-François Portaels. After that he went to Paris and joined the studio of Alexandre Cabanel, became a student of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He took part in the 1867 Prix de Rome competition (“The Murder of Laïus by Oedipus”) and received an honorable mention at this competition in 1868. After a stay in Italy, he settled permanently in Brussels in 1871 and opened a private painting academy. In 1891 he became one of the founding members of the Société des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
Francois Boisrond is a contemporary French painter. He studied from 1977 to 1980 at the National School of decorative Arts. In 1981 he became involved in the Free Figuration movement. Inspired by visual products (advertising products, posters, stickers, video games etc.), cartoon characters, and by using acrylic paint, Francois Boisrond’s works are colourful, figurative and enigmatic, and his simplified shapes are often outlined in black. He portrays mainly characters, frequently symbolic in everyday situations, but he also depicts urban, maritime or rural landscapes. Besides this Boisrond creates humanitarian and publicity posters. Since the 1990’s the artist has become interested in an imaginary public and the everyday life that invades each and every one of us.
Jacques Raymond Brascassat was a French painter known for his landscapes and animal paintings.
Jacques Raymond Brascassat was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 1846. Among his pupils was Charles-François Daubigny.
Yves Brayer was a French painter and lithographer known for his landscapes, portraits and still lifes.
Brayer studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then in Rome. He was influenced by classical art and inspired by Mediterranean landscapes, which he often depicted in his paintings. He was also interested in the culture of ancient Greece, which influenced his work.
Brye's early work was inspired by the Cubist and Surrealist movements. He was a founding member of the Paris School, a group of artists working in the French capital in the mid-twentieth century. He was also a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts and a Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Bryeux's work has been exhibited in prestigious galleries and museums around the world, including the Louvre in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. His paintings are in many private collections.
Over the course of his career, Brye has received numerous awards and honours, including the Grand Prix de Rome and the Prix de l'Institut de France. He is considered one of the most important French artists of the 20th century.
Rodolphe Bresdin was a French draughtsman and engraver.
His fantastic works, full of strange details, particularly attracted Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert de Montesquiou and André Breton. Odilon Redon was his pupil. Bresdin influenced contemporary artists like Jacques Moreau, George Rubel, Jean-Pierre Velly, and Philippe Mohlitz. Bresdin's life story and his art are both extraordinary and fascinating. He was one of the finest and most original exponents of the art of print-making in the nineteenth century and his name ranks alongside those of Whistler, Doré and Meryon in achievement and influence.
Theodore Butler was an American Impressionist painter who is best known for his depictions of the French countryside.
Butler studied at the Art Students League of New York and worked as an illustrator for publications such as Harper's Weekly and Scribner's Magazine. In 1887, he traveled to France to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. There, he met the Impressionist painter Claude Monet and became part of his inner circle of friends and collaborators. Butler eventually settled in the village of Giverny, where he lived for the rest of his life.
In Giverny, Butler painted landscapes and scenes of everyday life in the countryside, often featuring the gardens and water lilies made famous by Monet's own paintings. He developed a loose, painterly style that was influenced by the Impressionists but also showed the influence of Post-Impressionism.
Today, Butler's work can be found in the collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His contributions to the development of Impressionism and his association with Monet continue to make him an important figure in the history of art.
Yvonne Canu was a French painter and neo-impressionist who used pointillism and divisionism in her work. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Académie de la Grand Chaumiere.
Yvonne Canu's paintings were mainly landscapes and still lifes. Her works displayed a meticulous attention to detail and an emphasis on capturing the effects of light and colour. Using pointillism, she achieved a luminous quality in her paintings, with colours optically blending into one another when viewed from a distance.
Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot was a French painter. He was known for his Impressionist-style paintings of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits.
Cariot studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was influenced by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. He exhibited his work at the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon d'Automne, and won several awards and honors throughout his career.
Cariot's paintings are characterized by their use of light and color, with loose brushstrokes and a vibrant palette. His landscapes often depicted scenes of the French countryside, particularly the forests and rivers of the Fontainebleau region. His still lifes featured flowers, fruit, and other objects arranged in simple yet elegant compositions.
In addition to his paintings, Cariot also worked as an illustrator, creating illustrations for books and magazines. He illustrated the works of Émile Zola, Paul Verlaine, and other writers.
His paintings are held in the collections of many museums and galleries, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Jules Cavailles was a French painter.
He started as a technical draughtsman. In 1925 he enrolled at the Académie Julian and he began exhibiting at the various Parisian Salons from 1928 – the Société des Artistes Français, Société des Artistes Indépendants and Salon d'Automne. He was soon invited to participate at the Salon des Tuileries and in 1936 he organised the 14th exhibition of the Artistes de ce temps in the Petit-Palais. In the same year he received the prestigious Grant Blumenthal and he was soon awarded the commission to decorate the Pavilion of Languedoc for the Exposition Universelle. He was part of a group of artists called “La Realite Poetique”. His artistic style is characterised by the juxtaposition of pure colour, derived from an interpretation of fauvist painting which was less interested in the early Fauve artists’ search for intensity and dynamism than a simple expression of ‘joie de vivre’.
He worked in oils, gouache, and pastel, and his subject matter featured figures, portraits, nudes, still lifes, flowers, landscapes, and animals. His work is represented in many leading collections and museums, including the Modern Art Museum in Paris, and the museums in Toulouse, Albi, Marseilles, Chicago, and Helsinki.
Charles Ferdinand Ceramano, born Charles Ferdinand Semain, was a Belgian painter and illustrator of the Barbizon school.
Ceramano's favorite subjects were pastoral landscapes and scenes of sheep in a sheepfold or in a meadow.
Auguste Chabaud was a French painter and sculptor. At the age of fourteen Chabaud joined the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Avignon. In 1899 he went to Paris to continue his artistic training at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. There he met Henri Matisse and André Derain. In 1900 he returned to his parents' vineyard in southern France. In 1901, he was forced to leave Paris again in order to secure his livelihood. He worked on a ship and got to know the West African coast. In the following years he became acquainted with the Parisian nightlife. In the Paris neighborhood Montmartre, where he had his studio, he painted various scenes of Parisian life. Chabaud's Cubist phase began in 1911, where he also began sculpting. In the following years he had many exhibitions, including 1913 in New York, where his works were exhibited alongside those of artists such as Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Picasso. After his return from the first World War Chabaud settled down in Graveson. From 1920 he had his "blue period". He used the Prussian Blue as the only color in his works. From then, he focused exclusively on the south of France. He painted scenes of rural life, the farmers, and the hills and trails of the Alpilles. In 1992, the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur opened the Musée Auguste Chabaud in his honor.
Martin Léonce Chabry is a French painter. Thanks to his contacts and his recognized qualities, Chabry left for Paris as a resident of the City of Bordeaux and in 1854, he entered the studio of Constant Troyon. For two years, Chabry made frequent visits to Barbizon. In 1855, in Barbizon, Chabry met a Belgian-Dutch artist, Willem Roelofs, who invited him to visit Flanders. Following this advice, he settled for some time in Bruges, then visited Brussels in 1856. At that time he often worked with Verwee and Hippolyte Boulenger, in Tervuren, near Brussels. If Chabry can be considered as one of the fathers of the School of Tervueren, thanks will never be given to him in Belgium, "too French", curiously, he suffers in France from being too Belgian. In 1862, he moved to Sauternes, but continued to participate in the annual Brussels fair as well as that of Bordeaux. In 1867, the Bordeaux museum bought his first canvas, followed two years later by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. In 1881, he undertook a long trip to Egypt, Palestine, Syria. At the end of June 1882, a personal exhibition of his trip to the East opens in Brussels.
Pierre-Athanase Chauvin was a French painter active in Italy.
Chauvin was a student of the landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. He began his career at the Paris Salon in 1793 and won the First Class Medal in 1819 with his painting Charles VIII’s entry into Acquapendente. The painting was commissioned by Louis XVIII of France for the Galerie de Diane at the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Edouard Léon Cortès was a French painter of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings.
Henri Célestin Louis Dabadie was a French landscape and Orientalist painter.
He was a student of Jules-Élie Delaunay and Henri Michel-Lévy. After completing his studies, he devoted himself to Impressionistic landscape painting; primarily in Brittany. He alo painted harbor scenes in Rotterdam and Hamburg.
Geoffroy Dauvergne was a French painter and sculptor. He created many wall mosaics and frescoes.
Geoffroy Dauvergne was a figurative painter belonging to the Parisian New School, influenced by Cubism. He is known for his landscapes, portraits and still lifes.
Jean Deville, born in 1872 in Lyon, France, was a French painter whose works have been featured in various auctions and exhibitions. Despite the limited availability of comprehensive biographical information, several records provide insights into his artistic contributions.
Deville's paintings have appeared in multiple auctions, indicating a recognition of his work within the art market. For instance, Christie's auctioned his piece titled "Landscape with Cypresses," an oil on cardboard measuring 50 x 51 cm, which was signed by the artist. This particular work was also discussed in the July 2001 issue of Tableau, Fine Arts Magazine, highlighting its significance.
Until 2025, Deville's artworks have been offered at public auctions 22 times, primarily in the painting category, indicating consistent interest among collectors and art enthusiasts.
Additionally, Deville's association with Maximilien Luce, a prominent Impressionist master, is documented. An oil on canvas by Deville was listed for sale, emphasizing his connection as a student of Luce. This mentorship likely influenced Deville's artistic style and development.
Despite these records, detailed information about Jean Deville's life, including his death date and broader biographical context, remains scarce. The available data primarily focuses on his artworks and their presence in the auction circuit, reflecting a recognition of his contributions to the art world, even if comprehensive details about his personal and professional life are limited.
Albert Dubois-Pillet was a French Neo-Impressionist painter and army officer. He played an important role in founding the Société des Artistes Indépendants and was one of the first artists to embrace Pointillism.
Albert Dubois-Pieu's paintings often depicted landscapes, seascapes and city scenes, conveying the effects of light and atmosphere with meticulous attention to detail. His use of vivid and contrasting pointillistic colours created a sense of depth, brightness and optical blending when viewed from a distance.
Dubois-Pieu was influenced by the theories of colour and light of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, two prominent figures in the Neo-Impressionist movement. He participated in several exhibitions with these artists and other members of the movement, contributing to the dissemination and appreciation of Neo-Impressionism.
Gaspard Duguet, also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter specialising in landscape painting. He was born into a family of French painters who settled in Rome.
Gaspard Duguet received his artistic training from his uncle, Nicolas Poussin, who was one of the leading Baroque painters. Duguet's early works were strongly influenced by Poussin's style, which emphasized clarity and orderliness of composition.
In the 1650s, Duguet began to develop a style of his own, characterized by his bold brushwork and vibrant use of colour. He became known for his ability to create dramatic and atmospheric landscapes, often depicting scenes from the Roman countryside.
Gaspar Duguet's paintings have a sense of grandeur and monumentality. His landscapes often feature classical ruins and ancient monuments, giving his works a sense of historical depth and resonance.
André Albert Marie Dunoyer de Segonzac was a French painter, graphic artist and illustrator known for his contribution to the Post-Impressionist and Fauvist movements.
Dunoyer de Segonzac's style was defined by his bold use of colour, his expressive brushwork, and his desire to capture the essence of the subject. In his work, he explored a variety of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes and scenes of everyday life. His paintings often displayed a sense of vitality and energy, with vibrant hues and dynamic compositions. The master often used intense hues to evoke an emotional response. His palette was characterised by a bold and expressive use of colour, giving his works a sense of vibrancy and dynamism.
Julien Dupré, a distinguished French artist, emerged as a pivotal figure in the realm of painting, celebrated for his vivid and heartfelt portrayals of peasant life. Born into a family of jewelers in 1851, Dupré's artistic journey commenced in an unexpected turn of events when the Franco-Prussian war led him to pursue art, eventually studying at the École des Beaux-Arts under renowned teachers like Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann.
Julien Dupré's oeuvre is renowned for its realistic depiction of rural scenes, particularly in Normandy and Brittany, capturing the essence of peasant life with a blend of romanticism and realism. His commitment to depicting the rustic life earned him prestigious accolades, including a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and the esteemed Legion of Honour in 1892.
Among his notable works are "The Hay Harvest" at the Chimei Museum, "Haying Scene" at the St. Louis Art Museum, and "The Haymakers" at the Worcester Art Museum. These paintings not only illustrate Julien Dupré's masterful depiction of rural life but also resonate with art enthusiasts and collectors worldwide for their historical and cultural significance.
For collectors and art aficionados, Julien Dupré's paintings are a testament to a bygone era, offering a window into the pastoral life of 19th-century France. His works are not merely artistic endeavors but historical narratives woven onto canvas, celebrating the unvarnished beauty of the countryside and its inhabitants.
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François-Louis Français, also known as Louis Français, was a French painter, lithographer and illustrator who became one of the most commercially successful landscape painters of the 19th century. A former pupil of Gigoux, he began his career by studying lithography and wood engraving, becoming a prolific illustrator and print-maker. His work as an illustrator is to be found in around forty books and numerous magazines from the late 1830s to the 1860s. Français also produced a large number of pen and ink drawings, enhanced by sepia, notable for their attention to detail and for their technical adroitness and conciseness.
Français is associated with the Barbizon School of painting, a movement to represent art in nature in a Romantic, Realist context. In 1836 whilst at Barbizon he met the landscape painter Camille Corot and began a ten-year association as a friend and acolyte. Français's paintings possess some of the prominent features of the work of Corot in his use of tonal colours, loose brushwork and an emphasis on softness of form.
Jean Frélaut was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator who studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris and learned printmaking from Marcel Beltrand and Donald Shaw Mac Laughlan. He participated in the group of independent printmakers founded by Jean Émile Laboureur and Raoul Dufy and was appointed curator of the museum in Vannes in 1937. Frélaut's work is characterized by his love for nature and his ancestral territory in Morbihan, which is reflected in his engravings and drawings.
Eugène Galien-Laloue was a French artist. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter.
His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent the era in which he lived: a happy, bustling Paris, la Belle Époque, with horse-drawn carriages, trolley cars and its first omnibuses. Galien-Laloue's works are valued not only for their contribution to 20th-century art, but for the actual history, which they document. His work can be seen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Louvier; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle; Mulhouse, France.
Georges Jean Marie Haquette was a prominent French painter, particularly known for his portrayals of fishermen and maritime scenes. Born in Paris, Haquette trained under notable 19th-century artists Aime Millet and Alexandre Cabanel, drawing influence from French Realist painters like Courbet. His unique focus was on the lives and labors of sea harvesters, differentiating his work from contemporaries who focused more on land-based peasants.
Haquette debuted at the Paris Salon in 1875 and continued to exhibit there, earning various recognitions including an honorable mention in 1878 and medals in 1880 and 1901. His notable works include "Un homme à la mer!" (1886), "La femme du matelot" (1887), and "La levée des filets" (1888). His painting "Net Fishers" was featured in "Famous Paintings of the World" (1894), emphasizing the picturesque and labor-intensive life of coastal peasants.
Many of Haquette's works are housed in prestigious museums, such as those in Brest, Dieppe, Mulhouse, Pontoise, and Rouen. Some of his notable paintings include "Le Manchon de Francine" in the Musée de Brou, "Pêcheurs" in the Musée du Vieux Château, and "Pêcheuse" in the Hôtel de Ville de Rouen.
For collectors, auctioneers, and art and antiques experts interested in Haquette’s work, his paintings represent an insightful view into 19th-century French maritime life and culture. His unique focus on sea harvesters adds a distinctive dimension to French Realist painting.
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Martinus Antonius Kuytenbrouwer the Younger was a 19th-century Dutch animalist painter, landscape painter and graphic artist. A court painter for Napoleon III, he was active in Brussels from 1849 to 1860.
The artist's creative legacy is held in museums in Brussels and Rotterdam.
Jean-Marie Lamare is a Flemish primitive painter of today, a rare master of tempera. This technique inherited from the great Flemish Masters surprises with its particular luminosity. The compositions of J. M. Lamare transport us to a fantastic world.
Auguste-Xavier Leprince was a French painter, lithographer, draughtsman and illustrator.
Leprince displayed his talent and pictorial genius in a variety of genres and techniques during his short but vivid life. He painted portraits and landscapes, scenes of rural and urban life, and illustrated books. Leprince's art left a deep trace in the painting of the early 19th century.
