Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet (Chantilly 1843... Lot 186

Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet (Chantilly 1843 - 1918 in the Dordogne), ,Landscape with Monastery Ruins, 1894, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 38 x 55 cm (French stretcher frame size P10). Stretcher size P10), belonging to the first generation of Impressionists (Cézanne described himself as his pupil), Guillemet was one of the first artists of this style to be recognized by the general public, in 1881 Guillemet discovered the landscape of the Cotentin for himself, where he mainly found his motifs from then on, in a wide stucco gold frame, overall size: 69 x 86 cm. Limit 1620,- >> French landscape and marine painter, as well as religious subjects, pupil of Corot and Oudinot, first represented at the Salon of 1865; represented in French museums; litt.