This landscape with boat on the river Seine was executed in 1860 by French landscape painter Émile Lambinet (1813, Versailles – 1877, Bougival). He was the painter of rural scenes. A student of Horace Vernet then Corot, he spent most of his life in Yvelines, at first in his birthplace of Versailles, then at Bougivalon Seine from 1860 ( where was executed our painting).
His cousin, Victor Lambinet, bequeathed the hotel Lambinet to the town of Versailles - it is now the musée Lambinet. Paintings there by Émile include :
Banks of the Seine near Bougival. Fisher's beside a pond, 1860. The Château des Roches at Bièvres, 1874 Île-de-France landscape with two foreground figures, 1872. Bouquet of flowers, 18(??). Landscape with Boatmen, 1864. Banks of a river, summer. Road, 18(50). Bank of a river. View from the Pavillon du Butard near Versailles.
Literature: in French: E.Benezit " Dictionary of painters, sculptors, decorators and etchers"(in French), Paris, 1999; Peintures du musée Lambinet à Versailles, ed. Somogy et Musée Lambinet, 2005; in German: Thieme/Becker, Leipzig,1999 ( in German); Schurr I, 1975; in English: on-line Wikipedia.
Inscription: signed and dated 1860 lower left.
Technique: oil on wood. Galery frame.
Measurements: unframed w 25 3/8 ” x h 16 1/8” (65 x 41,5 cm); framed w 34 2/8” x h 24 5/8” (88 x 63 cm).
Condition: in very good condition. |