The Impressionists This was the time of the “Belle Époque”, with its promenades, its boaters, its guingettes (open-air cafés with dance floors), its restaurants and hotels. The Boating Party in Bougival and the La Grenouillère Dance in Croissy competed with each other and Parisians jostled each other at them. People went boating everywhere, regattas and jousting events […]
After spending a few years in Algiers as an art teacher, Albert Lebourg returned to France and exhibited with the Impressionists. He captured fleeting aspects of the valley of the Seine, of La Charente region or Auvergne. In about 1900, his touch became lighter and his subjects brighter.
Charles Lambinet lived in rue Jomard from 1860 until he died. He painted most of his work in Bougival.
A student and friend of Corot, Louis Français was a very successful landscape artist. He often stayed in Bougival and preceded Monet and Renoir in depicting the banks of the Seine and the hillside around Bougival. The paintings he exhibited at the Exhibition were accompanied by comments with details and references. Worth mentioning, for example, is “November, Landscape” about […]
“Sunday at Bougival“ is full of lightness. Here, Félicien Rops conjures up the afternoons that he spent at Bougival in the company of Léontine and Aurélie Duluc, two seamstresses who became his companions. It is often said that “Sunday at Bougival“ – 1874 – depicts the two sisters beside the Seine enjoying the water and the sunshine, while […]
Georges Régnault (1898-1978), a painter from Bougival who considered himself to be the “last of the Impressionists”. During his career, he was the Founder and President of Bougival Tourist Information Office in 1962 and was to set up and then lead the Bougival Academy of Painting from 1973. On 21 April 1978, he exhibited at […]
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), a painter and sculptor, and Member of the Academy of Fine Arts, owned a workshop on the quays in Bougival. He used to spend many hours there during the summer months and entertained artists from the surrounding area there. A history and genre painter and an official painter honoured during his lifetime […]
An English painter (1775-1851), born in London and a major figure in the English School, Turner plays an essential role because he was the precursor of the impressionist movement. In his landscapes he often expresses changes in nature with changing, phantasmagorical intensities of light, which he felt very personally. He painted skilfully not only in […]