AUGUSTE BOUVARD | Moored Boats, Venice
Oil on Canvas
38 x 55 cms / 15 x 21½ inches
Signed 'Bouvard' (lower right)
In this Venetian canal scene, Auguste Bouvard shifts the focus towards the quieter backwaters of Venice, where daily life unfolds beyond the principal thoroughfares. The canal narrows as it recedes, flanked by closely packed buildings that rise directly from the water. Moored boats cluster along the right-hand bank, their dark hulls pressing against timeworn stone, while a gondola glides steadily towards a small arched bridge that closes the 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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