Charles Pécrus - Oil On Panel - Street In Montmartre - 1880

Rare oil painting by Charles PÉCRUS depicting the Mont-Cenis street in Montmartre around 1880, animated with characters.

Although he produced many genre scenes at the beginning of his career, then seascapes imitating the style of Eugène BOUDIN, this view of Montmartre is really rare in his production and recalls the works of Stanislas LÉPINE, painted at the same time.

For comparison, the last photo shows an engraving by Eugène DELÂTRE made in 1891, illustrating an identical view of the Mont-Cenis street.

BIOGRAPHY:
Pécrus began his career in Paris at the Ponts-et-Chaussés, where his superior noticed his talent for drawing and encouraged him to study at an art school.
Pécrus studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Eugène Fichel. He also visited the Louvre to copy works by old masters.
From 1857, he exhibited interior scenes at the salon of the Société des Artistes Français, which brought him success, notably "Femmes à la Toilette, Départ pour le Bal".
He met the painters Eugène BOUDIN, Johan Barthold JONGKIND and Alfred STEVENS, who encouraged him to paint outdoors. Pécrus joined BOUDIN in Trouville and discovered Impressionism.
In 1865, his painting "The Day After the Wedding" was bought by Napoleon III.
Pécrus set up his studio at 31 rue Fontaine, not far from his friend Boudin's studio. Following Jongkind's advice, Pécrus gradually abandoned genre painting after 1870 and devoted himself more and more to Impressionist landscape and seascape painting. But it was not until around 1885 that he almost completely abandoned genre painting.
He painted in Brittany and Normandy, on the Mediterranean, in Holland and Venice, and exhibited his landscape "The Cows on the Banks of the Allier" at the 1890 Salon. In 1892, he exhibited his first seascape, "Washers on the Touque".
He exhibited at the Salon for the last time in 1905 and, despite his declining strength, continued to paint until his death in 1907.

His works are present in many museums: Orsay, Dieppe, Reims, Saint-Lô, Cherbourg...

Oil on panel

33 x 24 cms (with gilded frame, approximately 39 x 30 cms)

Signed lower right "C.Pécrus"

Beautiful presentation, clean work, note an old restored vertical crack (visible up close only)

Photos taken in sunlight

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