Bonaventure Laurens (attributed To) - View Of Grenoble From The Heights

Jean Joseph Bonaventure LAURENS (Atributed to)
Carpentras, 1801 – Montpellier, 1890View of Grenoble from the heightsOil on canvas mounted on cardboard35.5 x 42.5 cm (46.5 x 54.5 cm with the frame)Old label on the back “n. 204 / Laurens JB / Montpellier”Old label on the back locating the painting “Grenoble / Confluans of the Isère and the Drac / seen from the path of the g. Chatreuse by the Sappey near the Sacré Coeur”Beautiful varnished fruitwood frameVery good conditionVisible at the galleryJean Joseph Bonaventure Laurens was born on July 14, 1801 in Carpentras. He was a painter, watercolorist, lithographer, but also a musician and archaeologist. He also set up a painting and music workshop in his accommodation at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier where he worked as a “secretary and accounting officer”. Bonaventure Laurens frequented musicians (Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms) as well as painters (Ingres, Corot, Cabanel). His younger brother was the painter Jules Laurens (1825-1901). We know of many landscapes painted in watercolor by Bonaventure Laurens but his painters are very rare. This view from the heights of Grenoble shows his talent as a painter, particularly in the very beautiful sky and the rendering of nature, at the same time as his talents as a draftsman in the multiple architectural details of the city of Grenoble and its surroundings.