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Honoré BARMONT
Paris, 1810 - Paris, 1851
Oil on canvas
36 x 25 cm (48 x 38 cm with the frame)
Signed and dated lower right "Honoré Barmont / 1842
Beautiful 19th century gilded wood frame
Honoré Barmont is the son of the painter Jean Honoré Marmont de Barmont also a painter and like him a student of Victor Bertin.
Romantic painter of landscapes and city views, he represented picturesque sites of France and Europe (in France in Paris, Montmartre, Rouen and the castles of Normandy, abroad in Spain and Germany) in the years 1830 to 1850. His subjects as well as his style are reminiscent of French and European painters of picturesque views such as Eugène Cicéri, Karl-Joseph Kuwasseg, Giuseppe Canella and the Belgian François Bossuet.
Honoré Barmont exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1839 and 1851. Our painting is perhaps a replica of the painting "Souvenir d'Allemagne" exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1841.
The workmanship is synthetic, the drawing precise and the colors bright and cheerful. What makes the charm of his paintings is also the great work on the light which reminds the art of Victor Bertin and which literally draws the forms, the characters and the architectures in particular.
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