Albert Lebourg

Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, in Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928, in Rouen), birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l'École de Rouen). Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by : Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit.

Early life Initially studying at Évreux Lycée, Albert Lebourg, with interests in architecture, entered the École des Beaux-Arts of Rouen at a very young age. He studied art with Gustave Morin at l'Academie de peinture et de dessins, Rouen. Afterward, he was briefly a student of Jean-Paul Laurens.

Career In the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879 Lebourg exhibited 30 works with Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas, presenting paintings and drawings executed in Algiers. In the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition or 1880 he exhibited 20 works depicting Rouen, Paris and Algiers. In 1883 he was admitted to the Salon (Paris) with his work entitled Matinée à Dieppe. Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Georges-Pierre Seurat exhibit, with Seurat and Signac present at the opening. The major work shown is Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Lebourg remained occupied in all four seasons painting animated scenes of the Seine in and near Rouen and Paris. He energetically painted in Auvergne, Normandy and Île-de-France, finally settling in Puteaux where he remained from 1888 to 1895, availing himself to the surroundings of Paris, painting what he would regard as his best works. He wrote at the time:

"I will paint often at the banks of the Seine: Nanterre, Rueil, Chatou, Bougival, Port-Marly. These are a source of themes and very beautiful landscapes". (Lebourg)

13 November 1909, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen opened a show with fifty-two paintings: thirteen by Lebourg, three by Monet, nine by Sisley, one by Renoir, three by Armand Guillaumin, five by Joseph Delattre, two by Charles Frechon and four by Robert Antoine Pinchon. And in 1918, in the same museum, Lebourg was represented along with Bonnard, Boudin, Camoin, Cross, Guillaumin, Luce, Matisse, Monet, Signac and Vuillard and Pinchon.

He was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour on 27 June 1903, and breveted Officer of the Legion of Honour 22 April 1924

Albert Lebourg died in Rouen on 7 January 1928. Lebourg's works are exhibited at the Musée d’Orsay, Petit-Palais and Carnavalet in Paris, as well as museums in Bayonne, Clermont-Ferrand, Le Havre, Dunkerque, Lille, Strasbourg, Sceaux and above all Rouen at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (François Depeaux collection).

Selected works Lebourg, Le quai de la Tournelle et Notre-Dame de Paris, 1909, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris View of Pont-du-Château, 1885, Hermitage Museum, Saint Saint Petersburg Remorqueurs à Rouen, Musée d'Orsay, Paris L'Île Lacroix sous la neige, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen Navire norvégien dans le port de Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen La Seine à Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon La Seine à Croisset, Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai Faure Museum (Aix-les-Bains), Savoie Neige à Pont-du-Château, 1885, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand Neige à Pont-du-Château, Au Musée d'Évreux (Dépôt du Musée du Louvre), 1983, (inv. R.F. 1973-6). Vue de la Seine au bas Meudon, 1893, Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine Le pont de Neuilly du côté de Courbevoie, Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine The Seine at La Bouille, ca.1904-10, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo La Seine près de Saint-Cloud, North Carolina Museum of Art Le Port d'Anvers (The Harbor at Anvers), 1895–1897, Phoenix Art Museum La Rue de Bouchers à Algers, 1873, Ger Eenens Collection the Netherlands

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