Rouen School
The Rouen School (L'École de Rouen) is a term used for artists or artisans born or working in Rouen, or for all artistic products from Rouen, such as Rouen faience of the 16th to 18th centuries.
The term was first used in 1902 by Arsène Alexandre in his catalogue to an exhibition by Joseph Delattre in the galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. Alexandre used it to refer to Joseph Delattre, , Charles Angrand and , four Post-Impressionist artists interested in Neo-Impressionism (and particularly Seurat's pointillism) towards the end of the 1880s.[1] Alexandre also used the term for a second generation of l'École de Rouen, including Robert Antoine Pinchon and Pierre Dumont among others, in relation to Fauvism and Cubism.[1]
Works[]
, Le Pont Corneille, Rouen, 1890
Albert Lebourg, Tow boats in Rouen Sun, 1900
Joseph Delattre, Le Port de Rouen
, Pêcheurs à Honfleur, 1920
Charles Angrand, Couple dans la rue, 1887
Robert Antoine Pinchon, Le Vallon du temps perdu
Albert Lebourg, Chalou Moulineux, 1910
Robert Antoine Pinchon, Le jardin aux iris, c.1920
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Bibliography[]
- L'École de Rouen, Rouen, BDS, coll. « La Vie de Rouen », 1972, 236 p.
- L'École de Rouen, in abc antiquités beaux-arts curiosités, no 188, June 1980
- François Lespinasse (preface by François Bergot), L'École de Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Rouen-Offset, 1980, 221 p.
- Caroline Larroche, 7 peintres de l'école de Rouen, Paris, Galerie Alain Letailleur, 1990, broché, 184 p.
- François Lespinasse, L'École de Rouen, Lecerf, Rouen, 1995 (ISBN 2-901342-04-3)
- François Lespinasse, La Normandie vue par les peintres, Edita, Lausanne, 1988
- L'École de Rouen de l'impressionnisme à Marcel Duchamp 1878-1914, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, 1996 (ISBN 2-901431-12-7)
- François Lespinasse, Rouen, paradis des peintres, 2003 (ISBN 978-2-906130-04-3)
- François Lespinasse, Journal de l'École de Rouen 1877-1945, 2006 (ISBN 2-906130-01-X)
- L'École de Rouen, de l'impressionnisme au cubisme, soixante ans de modernité en Normandie, Pont-Audemer, Musée Canel, 2008
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- Rouen
- French art movements
- Post-Impressionism
- French artist groups and collectives