Up to the very early years of the 19th century, landscape art was not officially recognised by the Salon’s authorities, and solely picturing a landscape remained unthinkable. However, more and more artists, encouraged by the invention of the tube of paints, investigated the idea of painting oil sketches directly from nature, either on paper or on small canvas. It gave one of the most creative and fascinating periods in the genre of landscape, in Europe. Some of these painters organized themselves in a movement, now called the School of Barbizon, that would make the forest of Fontainebleau and its surroundings their main experimenting grounds. Eug\u00e8ne Cic\u00e9ri was one of them.<\/p>\n
First trained in the decorative art by his renowned father, the painter Pierre Luc Charles Cic\u00e9ri, Eug\u00e8ne quickly switched to landscapes, thanks to his uncle, the painter Eug\u00e8ne Isabey, with whom he shared an apartment in Pigalle. It is in this neighbourhood, inhabited by painters like Th\u00e9odore Rousseau or Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet, that he met the Barbizon\u2019s founding members. Adhering to this school, Cic\u00e9ri depicted in his landscapes a peaceful rural France, far away from industrialisation. These present works are of his debuts, when he was concentrating on Paris\u2019 surroundings and on Normandy, but already displayed the particularities which would be his: small-sized watercolours with a penchant for shimmering skies, a characteristic inherited from Eug\u00e8ne Isabey who also suggested him the taste for colours . If the landscape dominates, the human figure is often present, undoubtedly to remind us of the link that binds mankind and nature. His participation to the 1851 Salon, which saw the first exhibition of works from realist painters and members of Barbizon, crowned the artist as a fulfilled landscape painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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