Bridge With Boats - Eugène Ciceri 1813-1890

Circa 1850-1890 French painting school Marlotte Group / School of Barbizon Framing renovated.
Dimensions: Unframed 19.5 x 13.5 cm with frame: 38.5 x 33.5 cm
Signature: Bottom left: E. Ciceri

After following the teachings of his father and uncle, Eugene Ciceri exhibited at the Salons from 1851, and until in 1867. Attracted by the principle of the School of Barbizon out of the studio, to paint on the pattern, while daring new colors and a less conventional design, he moved in 1850, the Feuilleraie , at the invitation of the writer Henry Murger (1822-1861) in the small village of Marlotte, which was found about eight miles from Fontainebleau, at the end of a small road that ran through the forest from the roundabout of the Obelisk. Eugène Cicéri finds there the painters Henri-joseph Harpignies, Auguste Allongé, Albert, Rigolot, Charles François Daubigny, Narcissus Diaz de la Peña, Alexander Gabriel Decamps, Nicola and Giuseppe Palizzi, and many others. On July 26, 1855, he married the eldest of the three daughters of painter Auguste Boulanger, who had also settled in Marlotte, Constance Augustine.

The Cicéri family then settled Villa Marie-Louise, in one of the main arteries of Marlotte, today rue Murger (at n ° 57) where the painter lived until his death on Monday, April 20, 1890. Generous man and in a jovial mood, the artists found in him always a cordial hospitality. His contemporary, the painter Jules Laurens, even tells that one day in Melun, while waiting in his tilbury his wife who did some shopping, a bourgeois took him for a coachman and asked him to drive him to the station, what the painter did very kindly, with a smile on his lips, without stopping his status to his passenger who never knew he had been transported by a great artist!

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