The Seine at Herblay, 1889
“Maximilien Luce, L'instinct du paysage” at the Musée Montmartre in Paris, March 21 to September 14 2025.
Description of the artwork
This is the artist's plein-air study and the preamble to the final painting, which was exhibited at the Salon the following year and acquired by the Musée d'Orsay in 2007. When Luce painted this cartoon, he was in Herblay, on the outskirts of Paris, at the invitation of Paul Signac, and it has been established that the two artists painted side by side for several weeks in the region at the end of the summer of 1889. The resemblance between this work and Signac's ‘Herblay, brouillard’, painted at the same time, is striking.
Literature
To be compared with the painting titled Herblay, oil on board, signed lower left and measuring 25.5 x 23 cm, reproduced p. 22 as no. 61 in the Catalogue de l'œuvre peint, tome II, by Jean Bouin-LUCE and Denise BAZETOUX, Éditions JBL, Paris, 1996.
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