Henri Barnoin (1882 – 1940 – Paris) Paris The Seine At The Pont Neuf - Oil On Canvas Signed

HENRI BARNOIN (1882 – 1940) "Paris la seine au Pont Neuf"

Very beautiful oil on canvas animated by characters on the quays and barges on the Seine at the height of the Pont Neuf in Paris.

This oil on canvas painted by Henri Alphonse Barnoin is signed lower right.

Dimensions including frame: 79 x 71 centimeters

Biography:

Henri Alphonse Barnoin was born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, at 13, rue du Dragon, in a milieu of artists: his father is the academic painter Adolphe Barnoin (1853-?), one of his uncles is the portrait painter Camille Barnoin (1841-1881), both born in Avignon and students of Alexandre Cabanel. Another uncle, the painter Édouard Cabane (1857 - after 1942), brother of his mother born Marie-Andréa Cabane, was a student of William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury, winner of the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1884.

Henri Alphonse Barnoin was a student of Luc-Olivier Merson and Émile Charles Dameron at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1900. He exhibited his works for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1909 and received an honorable mention.
He won a silver medal in 1921, a gold medal in 1935 and was ranked hors-competition in 1939.
He settled in Concarneau in 1912 where he lived for part of the year from 1919. Having a shop on the Pénéroff quay, he was a privileged witness to the bustle of the port, which he never tired of painting and was then part of the Concarneau group. With its majestic market halls and its large square, Le Faouët was one of his favorite stops. There he met his friend Arthur Midy, who had taken up residence there. In 1933, his painting of the Saint-Fiacre chapel earned him the prize of the Association of French Landscapers.
He visited the other Breton ports on the Atlantic coast and traveled around the region. Also a pastellist, he liked to play on the effects of light such as sunrises and sunsets. He is sometimes called a post-impressionist painter but also often depicts groups of Breton women in traditional dress, fishermen and other port themes, market scenes, processions, but also landscapes of rocky coasts.

He became official painter of the Navy in 1926.

Solo exhibitions:

Ninety-five of his works were presented at the Musée du Faouët during an exhibition dedicated to him in 2006.

Group exhibitions:
Painters between land and sea - From Concarneau to Faouët, Musée du Faouët, August-October 2019.