Victor Charreton (1864-1936), Hst Painting

Oil on canvas painting representing a landscape with the river impressionism, unsigned, label on the back on the frame indicating "study out of competition M. Victor Charreton, 8 Bd de Clichy, Paris. Beautiful Montparnasse frame. Period early 20th century. Size outside frame 38.5 * 54.5 cm and with frame 60.5 * 76.5 cm Victor Léon Jean Pierre Charreton born in Bourgoin (Isère) on March 2, 1864 and died in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) on March 26 November 1936 is a French painter. Biography Victor Charreton grew up in a wealthy family. The artist very early showed a taste for poetry and painting. His law studies led him to become a lawyer at the Lyon Court of Appeal In 1893, he married Elmy Chatin, daughter of an entrepreneur from Puy-de-Dôme. Victor Charreton made his debut at the Salon of the Lyon Society of Fine Arts in 1894. In 1902, he sold his study to devote himself entirely to painting. The landscape artist Victor Charreton is part of this generation of artists from the French school who devoted entirely to landscape following the impressionist painters. He paints on the motif retaining the places that speak to him according to the seasons, the light and the colors. Auvergne, Brittany and Provence are thus particularly dear to him, without forgetting the south of Europe and the Maghreb where he had the opportunity to stay. He shows a predilection for Auvergne winter landscapes. His spring and autumn landscapes explode with color. During his visit to the Salon d'Automne of 1933, Michel Florisoone placed him alongside Maurice Asselin, Gaston Balande, Jean Fernand-Trochain, Tristan Klingsor, Robert Lotiron, Paul-Émile Pissarro, Raymond Renefer, René Seyssaud, Henri Vergé- Sarrat and Jules Zingg, within “the immutable phalanx of landscape artists who love foliage and rivers”. The Church of Murol and the frost, From the terrace of Saint-Amand-Tallende in autumn, The Fields seen from Eugenie's garden, Snow on the basin, are some of the titles of his paintings that are significant of his pictorial research. The School of Murol Victor Charreton advised and influenced many painters including René Monteix. Auvergne seduced him with the harshness of its landscapes and the luminosity of its colours. With the painter Léon Boudal, parish priest of Murol, he founded the School of Murol which attracted many artists from all walks of life, seduced by this neo-Impressionism which expresses so well the raw simplicity and the light of the Auvergne landscapes. Bourgoin-Jallieu public collections, Bourgoin-Jallieu museum: the most important collection on this artist. Victor Charreton is the founding president of this museum created in 1929. Carcassonne, Museum of Fine Arts: Snow effect. Clermont-Ferrand, Roger-Quilliot art museum. Grenoble, Grenoble Museum: Snow at Breuil. Lyons, Museum of Fine Arts. Murol, museum of painters from the Murol school. Riom, Mandet Museum. Toulouse, Musée des Augustins: four paintings