Albert Lebourg Normandy Impressionism

Pencil drawing on paper by Albert Lebourg representing a view of the trees in his garden at La Bouille near Rouen where he regularly stays in the summer. Signed lower right, the drawing is framed in a wooden frame from the beginning of the 20th century and without it measures 30.5x18.5 cm. Albert Lebourg (1849-1928) began his training as a painter in Rouen, but quickly went to Paris where, to obtain a position as a drawing teacher in the city of Paris, he took courses in the workshop of Jean-Paul Laurens de 1878 to 1879. But from 1879, he exhibited in the fourth impressionist exhibition and traveled regularly, painting on the motif in France and Europe. He will again participate in the impressionist exhibition of 1880, then in that of the Group of XX in Brussels in 1887, in the salons of the National Society of Fine Arts from 1891 to 1914. A major exhibition was devoted to him in 1918 at the gallery Georges Petit.