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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: 1890
Size: 15.00" x 22.00" (38.1cm x 55.9cm)
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
c. 1885
Oil on original canvas
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Figure by a Cottage
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet - Sold
1899
Oil on panel
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Coucher De Soleil – Moret – 1899
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet - Sold