Edmond-Marie Petitjean, NEUFCHÂTEAU 1844 - 1925 PARIS
BOATS AT THE HARBOR
Oil on panel
27 x 21,3 cm ; 10 3/8 by 8 1/4 in.
Private collection
Edmond Marie Petitjean, 1844 - 1925, French,
was born at Neufchâteau in the Vosges. His father, a lawyer, did not allow him
to study art until he had completed courses at the Faculty of Law at Nancy.
From that moment, he abandoned the law and was able to devote himself entirely
to his artistic career. Success followed swiftly; his work was well received at
the exhibition of the Lorraine Society of the Friends of Arts, and then, in
1873, he made a brilliant début at the salon in Paris.
He was
awarded an honorable mention in 1881, and a bronze medal in 1884;
hors-concours, and a silver medal in 1885; a silver medal in 1889 at the
Exposition Universelle, the Legion of Honor in 1892, and a gold medal at the
Exposition Universelle of 1900; he was a member of the jury and of the
Committee of the Artistes Français for many years.
Yet Edmond
was never satisfied with his own work:“In my painting, I have searched
passionately for perfections, delicacy, tenderness of expression and tone; and
I feel that it will all crumble and become insipid in the Salon where, in order
to elbow one’s way in, one most by violent.”
All those
aspects of nature which Petitjean loved appear in his work. He could see the
picturesque detail and transcribe it in full; sensitive to color, but wary of
its violence. He loved the countryside, and his vision was essentially that of
a country man, his inclinations leading him to the peace of rural surroundings.
Petitjean is perhaps best known for his
depiction of the countryside and villages of Lorraine and Vendée. He did,
however, find inspiration further afield – in the harbors of le Hâvre,
Dunkerque, les Sables d’Olonne, Dieppe, Rotterdam, Bordeaux and the neighboring
coastline. More on Edmond Marie Petitjean
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