Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, in

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– 6 January 1928, in

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), birth name ''Albert-Marie Lebourg'', also called ''Albert-Charles Lebourg'' and ''Charles Albert Lebourg'', was a French

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of the Rouen School (''l'École de Rouen''). Member of the

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, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by : Galerie

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, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie

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Early life

Initially studying at Évreux Lycée, Albert Lebourg, with interests in architecture,Art Directory
/ref> entered the École des Beaux-Arts of Rouen at a very young age. He studied art with Gustave Morin at l'Academie de peinture et de dessins, Rouen. Afterward, the artist was briefly a student of Jean-Paul Laurens. In 1876, Lebourg exhibited his works for the first time together with

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, and other artists on the Boulevard Montmartre. Lebourg was referred to be appointed as a drawing professor at the Société des Beaux-Arts in Algiers after being noticed in Rouen by the art collector Laurent Laperlier. There he met Jean Seignemartin, who he inspired to bring more clarity and light into his paintings. In 1873 Lebourg married and remained in Algiers until the summer of 1877 when he resigned from his teaching position and returned to Paris with numerous paintings of the casbah, mosques and the Admiralty.Wally Findlay Galleries International, Inc.
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Career

In the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879 Lebourg exhibited 30 works with

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, presenting paintings and drawings executed in Algiers. In the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition or 1880 he exhibited 20 works depicting Rouen, Paris and Algiers. In 1883 he was admitted to the

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with his work entitled ''Matinée à Dieppe''. In 1887 he exhibited at the acclaimed

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exhibition, with

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exhibit, with Seurat and Signac present at the opening. The major work shown is Seurat's ''

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''.

Albert Lebourg, Extrait de, Exposition Albert Lebourg au profit des sinistrés du Japon, 1923

Lebourg remained occupied in all four seasons painting animated scenes of the Seine in and near Rouen and Paris. He energetically painted in

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and

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, finally settling in

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where he remained from 1888 to 1895, availing himself to the surroundings of Paris, painting what he would regard as his best works. He wrote at the time: :"I will paint often at the banks of the Seine: Nanterre, Rueil, Chatou, Bougival, Port-Marly. These are a source of themes and very beautiful landscapes". (Lebourg) He became a member of the

beginning in 1893. Lebourg moved to the Netherlands in 1895, where he would stay two years. He exhibited to great acclaim at the Mancini Gallery in Paris and won the silver medal at the

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. In 1903 a retrospective exhibition was organized presenting 111 works at the Gallerie Rosenberg, the art gallery of Paul Rosenberg at 21 rue de la Boétie in Paris. While his fame was firmly established by 1910 he continued exhibiting annually at the Salon. In 1918 another retrospective was organized in Paris. At the home of Impressionist art collector

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(1853–1920), Lebourg had the opportunity to converse many times with

, and

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(an artist who greatly admired him).Albert Lebourg, Art Seine, atelierdutemps
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''Le jardin maraîcher—Robert-Antoine Pinchon''
, Fiche pédagogique, CRDP de Haute-Normandie (pdf) 13 November 1909, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen opened a show with fifty-two paintings: thirteen by Lebourg, three by Monet, nine by Sisley, one by Renoir, three by

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, five by Joseph Delattre, two by Charles Frechon and four by Robert Antoine Pinchon.François Lespinasse, ''Robert Antoine Pinchon: 1886–1943'', 1990, repr. Rouen: Association les amis de l'École de Rouen, 2007, And in 1918, in the same museum, Lebourg was represented along with

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, Boudin, Camoin,

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, Guillaumin, Luce,

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, Monet, Signac and Vuillard and Pinchon. He suffered a stroke in September 1920 that paralyzed the left side of his body. He nevertheless remarried in February 1921. A Catalogue Raisonné was organized that year that included 2,137 works and was released in 1923, which garnered united praise by the press. He was named Chevalier of the

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on 27 June 1903, and breveted Officer of the Legion of Honour 22 April 1924Archives Nationales, Grande Chancellerie de la Légion d'honneur, Base de données Léonore
/ref> Albert Lebourg died in Rouen on 7 January 1928. Lebourg's works are exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay, Petit-Palais and Carnavalet in Paris, as well as museums in Bayonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Havre, Dunkerque, Lille, Strasbourg, Sceaux and above all Rouen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (François Depeaux collection).

Selected works

* ''Lebourg, Le quai de la Tournelle et Notre-Dame de Paris'', 1909, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris * ''View of Pont-du-Château'', 1885,

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the larges ...

, Saint Saint Petersburg * ''Remorqueurs à Rouen'',

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) ( en, Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French a ...

, Paris * ''L' Île Lacroix sous la neige'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen * ''Navire norvégien dans le port de Rouen'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen * ''La

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à Rouen'', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon * ''La Seine à Croisset'',

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* Faure Museum (Aix-les-Bains), Savoie * ''Neige à

Pont-du-Château Pont-du-Château (; oc, label= Auvergnat, Pont dau Chastèl; literally 'Bridge of the Castle') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. Geography Located 15 km from Clermont-Ferrand (15 ...

'', 1885, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand * ''Neige à

'', Au Musée d'Évreux (Dépôt du Musée du Louvre), 1983, (inv. R.F. 1973-6). * ''Vue de la Seine au bas

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'', 1893, Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine * ''Le pont de Neuilly du côté de

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'', Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine * ''The Seine at La Bouille'', ca.1904-10,

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, Tokyo * ''La Seine près de Saint-Cloud'',

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* ''Le Port d'Anvers (The Harbor at Anvers)'', 1895–1897,

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* ''La Rue de Bouchers à Algers'', 1873, Ger Eenens Collection the Netherlands

Gallery

File:Albert Lebourg, Bords de Seine à Chatou, oil on canvas, 46.4 by 65.1cm, 18.25 by 25.6 in.jpg, ''Bords de Seine à Chatou'', oil on canvas, 46.4 by 65.1 cm (18.25 by 25.6 in) File:Lebourg - La Rue des Bouchers à Algers 1873.jpg, ''La Rue de Bouchers à Algers'', 1873, Ger Eenens Collection the Netherlands File:Albert-lebourg-chalou-moulineux-1910.jpg, ''Chalou Moulineux'', 1910 File:Albert Lebourg - Bateau à vapeur.jpg, ''Bateau à vapeur à Croisset'', 60.9 × 103.5 cm (24 × 40.7 in) File:Albert Lebourg - N-Dame de Paris.jpg, ''Notre-Dame de Paris et la Seine pendant l'inondation de 1910'', 50.8 × 73.8 cm (20 × 29.1 in) File:Albert-Lebourg-Canal-in-Holland-near-Rotterdam.jpg, ''Canal in Holland near Rotterdam'', ca.1890 File:Albert Lebourg - Le chevet de Notre-Dame.jpg, ''Le Chevet de Notre-Dame'', ca.1900, 25 × 34 cm (9.8 × 13.4 in) File:Albert-Lebourg-Near-Rouen-The-Cliffs-of-Saint-Adrien.jpg, ''Near Rouen, The Cliffs of Saint Adrien'', ca.1890 File:Albert Lebourg - Notre Dame de Paris, View from the Quay de Tournelle.JPG, ''Notre Dame de Paris, View from the Quay de Tournelle'', ca.1895 File:Albert Lebourg VUE D'EVREUX AVEC LA CATHÉDRALE NOTRE DAME 1897.jpg, ''Vue d'Évreux avec la cathédrale Notre Dame'', ca.1897, 46 × 65 cm (18.1 × 25.6 in) File:The Bridge over the Allier at Pont-du-Chateau in Winter 1886 Albert Lebourg.jpg, ''The Bridge over the Allier at Pont-du-Chateau in Winter'', 1886, 43.6 x 77.7 cm File:Albert lebourg les anciens moulins du port de rotterdam un jour de grand vent.jpg, ''Les anciens moulins du port de rotterdam un jour de grand vent'', ca.1890 File:Albert Lebourg, before 1918, Paris, l'écluse de la Monnaie. Soleil d'hiver, oil on canvas, 81.5 x 115.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris..jpg, ''Paris, l'écluse de la Monnaie. Soleil d'hiver'', before 1918, 81.5 x 115.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris File:Lebourg-Albert-Charles-Tow-boats-in-Rouen-Sun.jpg, ''Tow boats in Rouen Sun'' ca.1900 File:Lebourg la-seine-a-dieppedalle-environs-de-rouen.jpg, ''La Seine à Dieppedalle, environs de Rouen'', ca.1900 File:Lebourg22.jpg, ''Paris, le pont de l’Archevêché et Notre-Dame vus du Quai de la Tournelle'', ca.1890 File:Albert Lebourg, c. 1895, Notre Dame de Paris.jpg, ''Notre Dame de Paris et La Seine'', ca.1895 File:Notre dame neige.jpg, ''La Notre Dame, neige'', ca.1895 File:The small branche of the Seine at Bas Meudon, Snow and Sunlight (Albert Lebourg, ca. 1890).jpg, ''The small branche of the Seine at Bas Meudon, Snow and Sunlight'', ca.1890 File:Paris, le pont Neuf.jpg, ''Paris, le pont Neuf'', 1906,

Petit Palais The Petit Palais (; en, Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...

, Paris

References

External links

Albert Lebourg at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Agence photographique de la réunion des Musées nationaux

Images d'art, Les œuvres des musées Français

Site du ministère de la culture et de la communication

New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)
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