Albert Marie Lebourg
"Les laveuses à Pont du Château par temps couvert"
ALBERT MARIE LEBOURG
Montfort-sur-Risle 1849-1928 Rouen
LES LAVEUSES À PONT DU CHÂTEAU PAR TEMPS COUVERT
Ca. 1892
Oil on canvas
61 x 110 cm.
Signed: lower left
Painted in a resemblance to the impressionistic style, it is a poetic and understandable way of landscape painting. There is a resemblance with the work of Jongkind and Boudin but in a non-revolutionistic way.
Provenance: Private collection, The Netherlands, Walter P. Chrysler, Detroit; Hammer gallery, New York.
Literature: Leonce Benedite: Albert Lebourg, Paris 1923, p. 110 en 307, ill. p. 100.; P. Thoben, Tussen realisme en impressionisme aquarellen van meesters van de Haagse School 18-11-2000/11-03-2001.