AUGUSTE BOUVARD | A Quiet Stroll
Oil on Canvas
38 x 56 cms / 15 x 22 inches
Signed 'Pelletier' (lower right)
In this riverside village scene, Auguste Bouvard presents a settled corner of the Midi, where water, buildings and landscape are closely bound. Low houses with tiled roofs sit directly at the river’s edge, their façades reflected across the surface of the water. The composition is anchored by the vertical presence of mature trees, set against a wide sky that allows light to spread evenly across the scene. Executed with his characteristic palette-knife technique, the surface is built through layered strokes that give weight to both structure and reflection.
Auguste Bouvard’s love affair with Venice was instant and enduring. Inspired by the outstanding beauty of the city, his impressionist, warm, colourful and confident landscapes capture its unique atmosphere and charm.
Widely collected and comprehensively acknowledged as one of the finest painters of Venice, comparisons are often drawn with Canaletto, Guardi and Ziem, however many prefer Bouvard’s style.
In his early years, Bouvard honed his talents under Constant-Dufeus at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris drawing inspiration from the popular impressionist movement of the time. His birth name was Eloi Noel Beraud although he signed his paintings Bouvard, Marc Aldine and Pelletier, amongst other pseudonyms but it is by Bouvard that he is best known.
In 1928, Gladwell & Patterson, the acknowledged experts of his art, held the first one-man exhibition of Bouvard’s work in Britain, from which the late Queen Mary purchased two paintings.
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