AUGUSTE BOUVARD | Gondole sur un canal à Venise
Oil on Canvas
50 x 65 cms / 19¾ x 25½ inches
Signed Bouvard (lower left)
Auguste Bouvard’s sunlit Venetian canal glows with warm ochres and lively reflections. His textured brushwork and soft atmospheric haze capture the romance of gondolas drifting between palazzi. Bouvard’s fluid handling of light and rippling water brings depth, movement and an unmistakably Venetian luminosity to this serene view.
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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