Saturday, 26 July 2008

Albert Lebourg (1849-1928)

"Ile de la cité, Paris" Oil on canvas, 1918.

"His works do not have brilliant colors or lights like fireworks. But when we look at his paintings, we are drawn into a well-balanced world, infinitely gentle, comfortable and transparent, where everything evaporates and dissolves into a charming and melancholic dream intoxicated with the graces chosen out of the universe." --Gustave Geoffroy, 1918.

I tried to collect together a group of his works to post here but it was so difficult to edit them down, and the quality was so uniformly good, that I decided to pick just one of my favourites instead. You can explore more of his paintings using the links below.

Biography
Over 100 works at the Athenaeum
58 works at Museuma

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