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Franck CINOT
Saint-Martin-les-Voulangis, 1851 - Crécy-en-Brie, 1890
Oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm (69 x 88 cm with frame)
Signed lower left "F. Cinot".
Beautiful 19th-century gilded wood frame
Franck Cinot belonged to the group of painters from the Briard region in Seine-et-Marne around Amédée Servin, whose other great names were Corot, Commère and Toulouse-Lautrec. The places they painted: the Morin Valley, Crécy en Brie, Voulangis, Crécy La Chapelle and Villiers sur Morin.
Cinot exhibited Briard landscapes at the annual Salon des Artistes Français, as well as a number of military and mythological paintings, and a "Plage de Veules" at the 1878 Salon.
In our painting, we recognize the type of beach, the concrete esplanade on the right and the short seafront at high tide of Veules-les-Roses, where France's smallest river flows into the sea.
Veules les Roses was already a tourist destination in the 1870s. By the mid-19th century, literary figures and artists were already visiting, including painters Antoine Chintreuil, César de Cock and Henri Harpignies, as well as writers Henri Michelet, Victor Hugo, the Goncourt brothers and François Coppée. Later, pretty villas were built here, and Parisians began to flock to this charming little seaside village not far from Paris, between Fécamp and Dieppe, sixty kilometers from Rouen, on public holidays.
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