Biography from Anderson Galleries, Inc.:
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Lucien Marchais, a pupil of the famous Parisian painter Luigi Loir,
exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon beginning in 1892. His
best-known Salon paintings depict landscapes throughout the French
countryside: near Paris, as in the present work as well as his 1892 and
1893 Salon submissions, Paris et le bois de Boulogne, vue prise du
Mont-Valerien (no. 1150) and La Seine a Asniere (no. 1193).
He also painted near Lyon, La Frette, paysage (Salon of 1895, no. 1273)
and around Tours, De Saint-Pierre a Portejoie, -aout (Salon of 1894,
no. 1248).
Many of Marchais' landscapes exhibit the artist's penchant for water
scenes. His strong grasp of plein air technique is clearly
illustrated in Canotiers sur la Seine; the crisp lighting and realistic presentation of the sculls and the river is akin to a Caillebotte river view.
Marchais' interesting compositional view and treatment of rippling
water also appears to be informed by the Impressionist school. |
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