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Eugene Antoine Lavieille (1828 - 1889)
The Road to the Village"
32 x 26 inches
oil on canvas
signed lower right
The Road to the Village"
32 x 26 inches
oil on canvas
signed lower right
EUGENE LAVIEILLE was a follower and a longtime friend of Corot. He was later close friends with Rousseau, Daubigny, and Millet (at
whose wedding he was a witness.). His landscapes of the Barbizon area, and later the region near Reims, were first accepted a the
Salon in the mid-1840’s, and he went on to receive medals in 1849, 1864, and 1870. In 1878, when the Barbizon artists were receiving
public recognition and support from the famous dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (best known as Impressionists’ dealer); Lavieille was awarded
the cross of the Legion of Honor. Lavieille’s works are in many French museums as well at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Among M. Corot’s merits one must not forget the excellence of his teaching, which is sound, luminous, and methodical. Of the
numbers of pupils whom he has shaped, sustained or restrained far from the seductions of the times. M.Lavieille is the one who gas
given me the greatest pleasure. There is quite a simple landscape of his: a cottage on the skirt of the woods, with a road disappearing
into it. The snow’s whiteness makes a pleasant contrast with conflagration of the evening, which is slowly burning down behind the
innumerable masthead of the leafless forest. For several years now, our landscape-painters have been turning more frequently to the
picturesque beauties of the sad season. But no one, I think, feels this better than M. Lavieille. Not a few of the effects which he has
often realized seem to me, however to be chosen extracts from the joys of winter. In the sadness of this landscape, which wears the
somberly pink and white livery of the fine days of winter as they draw toward their close, there is an irresistible and elegiac thrill of
pleasure which is known to all lovers of solitary walks.”
(Charles Baudelaire, “The Salon of 1859,” reprinted in Art in Paris, 1845-62 salons and other Exhibitions Reviewed by Charles Baudelaire, trans. By
Jonathan Mayne, London, Phaidon Press, 1965,99.197-98)
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