Honoré Barmont - Souvenir From Germany

Honoré BARMONT Paris, 1810 – Paris, 1851 Oil on canvas 36 x 25 cm (48 x 38 cm with the frame) Signed and dated lower right “Honoré Barmont / 1842” Beautiful 19th century frame in gilded wood Honoré Barmont is the son of painter Jean Honoré Marmont de Barmont also a painter and like him a pupil of Jean Victor Bertin. A romantic painter of landscapes and city views, he represented picturesque sites in France and Europe (in France in Paris, Montmartre, Rouen and the castles of Normandy, abroad in Spain and Germany) in the years 1830 to 1850. His subjects as well as his manner recall French and European painters of picturesque views such as Eugène Cicéri, Karl-Joseph Kuwasseg, Giuseppe Canella and the Belgian François Bossuet. Honoré Barmont exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1839 and 1851. Our painting is perhaps a replica of the painting "Souvenir d'Amérique" exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1841. The workmanship is synthetic, the drawing precise and the colors bright and cheerful. What makes the charm of his paintings is also the great work on the light which recalls the art of Victor Bertin and which literally draws the forms, the characters and the architectures in particular.