Antoine Guillemet Paintings

Guillemet was a pupil of Corot and Oudinot. He made his Salon debut in 1865. His work, which reflects his masters' teachings, earned him numerous awards and distinctions: a jury commendation at the Salon of 1872, second-class medal in 1874 and 1876, and a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1880, an Officier in 1896, and a Commander in 1910. He won a medal in Munich in 1905. His work was nonethless criticised by Manet, who found fault with his excessively heavy and vigorous approach. As a member of the Impressionist group, it was Guillemet (together with Duranty) who introduced Manet to Emile Zola. Perhaps surprisingly, it was also Guillemet - a highly bourgeois figure - who succeeded in getting a painting by Cézanne accepted for the Salon of 1882. The catalogue reads: Cézanne, pupil of Guillemet (Cézanne, élève de Guillemet).

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Amiens (Mus. de Picardie): St Subiac, Ille-et-Vilaine; Ste-Cardonne, Dordogne; The Raft of the Medusa (after Géricault)

Bordeaux: The Hamlet of Landemer

Dijon: View of Moret

Grenoble: Low Tide at Villerville

Mulhouse: The Chaos at Villars

Paris (Mus. du Petit Palais): The Seine at Conflans-Charenton; View of Equihem; Descent from the Cross (sketch for St Thomas of Aquinas); The Medici Fountain; Paris Seen from the Heights of Belleville; View of Villers-sur-Mer; Bercy in December

Périgueux: The Loing at Moret

Rochefort: Countryside around St-Vaast-la-Hougue

Rouen: Beach at Villers; Breton Landscape; The Rocks at Equihem (1910)

Sète: Seascape

Toulon: View of Carrières-Charenton

Tourcoing: November Evening

Troyes: Seascape

Antoine Guillemet Paintings