Landscape at Saint-André, Near Marseilles (c. 1865): Art, History and Details

Landscape at Saint-André, Near Marseilles (c. 1865) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Paul Guigou (French, 1834–1871).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This view of a rocky landscape along the Mediterranean coast of southern France reflects the naturalist ambition of capturing exact details and atmospheric effects observed directly from life. Clear, intense light floods over the stony cliffs and the sparse greenery baked in the heat of sun. The artist, l Guigou, studied art in Marseilles and devoted most of his career to painting views of his native Provence. In 1855 he began traveling back and forth between Marseilles and Paris, where he became familiar with the paintings of Gustave Courbet and died of a stroke at age 37.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape at Saint-André, Near Marseilles
• Date: c. 1865
• Creator attribution: Paul Guigou (French, 1834–1871)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood panel
• Dimensions: Unframed: 38.6 x 58.4 cm (15 3/16 x 23 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1980.265

A detail from the museum

Guigou was once the drawing master for the children of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild.

Collection credit

Bequest of Noah L. Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Galerie Daber. Guigou, 1834-1871: deuxième exposition. Paris: Galerie Alfred Daber, 1939.
• Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 19th Century European Paintings. May 4, 1979.
• Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. 19th Century European Paintings. May 4, 1979.

View the collection record

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