Pj Pelletier (1869-1931), Banks Of The Seine, Pastel On Paper, Signed, Framed

Pastels on paper, Landscape on the banks of the Seine. Pierre Jacques Pelletier is considered the painter of the Parisian suburbs, and the banks of the Seine, but he also painted very often in the heart of the capital, most often in pastel, but he also mastered the oil technique very easily. "Pelletier knew how to create a style for himself by assimilating both the lessons of the landscapers of the Fontainebleau school and those of the Impressionists. A poet, he moves us with his melancholic landscapes throughout the four seasons, with the beauty of his skies But he surprises us when, retrospectively becoming a fascinating journalist, he describes to us what Paris and our suburbs looked like... St-Ouen, Genevilliers, Epinay, Argenteuil, Issy-les-Moulineaux... - a century ago ... ...To watch Pierre-Jacques Pelletier is to enter the bustling world of art at the end of the century, to rub shoulders with the greatest while remaining unique in his palette, in his drawing, in his colors, in the expression of the art that he offers to his enthusiast. He knows how to constrain the borrowings of reality from his own sensation, from his inner universe. He knows how to make a landscape express the sadness of winter by giving his colors the muffled and silent atmosphere of snow. It gives us shivers... All his work is expressed in the rendering of the atmospheres that all nature reveals throughout the seasons, dawns and dawns. dawns, earth and skies..."