Barbizon Plein Air Painting:by Corot Student: Walking in the Month of May, 1863, French 19th Century Oil on Board

19th century

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Description

An extraordinarily fresh and timeless 19th Century scene with a figure walking in nature. It is a work by Corot student Emile Charles Lambinet. Lambinet initially had been taught "academic" historical landscape painting by Drolling and Horace Vernet. It was in 1835 that young Lambinet met Camille Corot and Charles Daubigny, who both became friends, and who taught him how to translate light into paint, and to work in the naturalistic manner of which the painting presented here is such a lovely example. Lambinet exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1833 to 1877, and his work was shown at the Universal Exhibitions of 1855 and 1867. His work became popular in the United States, where James Suydam was much influenced by him and collected several of his paintings.

The Musee Lambinet in Versailles, France, the artist's birthplace, is the primary repository of his paintings.

Works by the artist can also be found in the Paris Louvre, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The painting presented here is an oil on board mounted on to canvas and measures 52 x 41 cm excluding the frame. It is signed and dated "Mai" (May) 1863 or 1869 at the lower left, and situated "a Verrier". The overall framed size is 60 x 49 cm

Physical Dimensions

Height

52cm (20.47")

Width

41cm (16.14")

Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1860s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA879635

Dealers Notes

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Description

An extraordinarily fresh and timeless 19th Century scene with a figure walking in nature. It is a work by Corot student Emile Charles Lambinet.

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Lambinet initially had been taught "academic" historical landscape painting by Drolling and Horace Vernet.

Skippings Fine Arts

It was in 1835 that young Lambinet met Camille Corot and Charles Daubigny, who both became friends, and who taught him how to translate light into paint, and to work in the naturalistic manner of which the painting presented here is such a lovely example. Lambinet exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1833 to 1877, and his work was shown at the Universal Exhibitions of 1855 and 1867. His work became popular in the United States, where James Suydam was much influenced by him and collected several of his paintings.

fig 1. Barbizon plein air painting:by Corot student: walking in the month of May, 1863, French 19th Century oil on board — fig 1. Barbizon Plein Air Painting:by Corot Student: Walking in the Month of May, 1863, French 19th Century Oil on Board

The Musee Lambinet in Versailles, France, the artist's birthplace, is the primary repository of his paintings.

Works by the artist can also be found in the Paris Louvre, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The painting presented here is an oil on board mounted on to canvas and measures 52 x 41 cm excluding the frame. It is signed and dated "Mai" (May) 1863 or 1869 at the lower left, and situated "a Verrier". The overall framed size is 60 x 49 cm