Constant Bourgeois

Caen – The Artists – Bourgeois, Constant

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Constant Bourgeois
Constant Bourgeois

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Florent Fidele Constant Bourgeois (1767 – 1841) was a French landscape painter, engraver, and lithographer. He studied under Jacques-Louis David, but spent much of his time in Italy.

Landon mentions him as an artist distinguished for the richness of his compositions and the purity of his style, and describes three of his pictures as being in the manner of Gaspard Poussin.

He died at Passy (now in Paris), in June 1841.

     

Click here to read his bio on Wikipedia.

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1813 - Constant Bourgeois - Official reception of queen Matilda of England in front of the Abbaye-aux-Dames, Caen
1813 – Constant Bourgeois – Official reception of queen Matilda of England in front of the Abbaye-aux-Dames, Caen
????- Constant Bourgeois - View of the Abbaye-Aux-Dames Caen
????- Constant Bourgeois – View of the Abbaye-Aux-Dames Caen

TODAY: The Abbey now forms part of Caen’s city hall.

Bourgeois made his drawings all over France, although many of them in Paris and its surroundings. Here are all the other places he painted in France (a link “⇠” to his works will appear here when published):

  • Auvergne-Rhones-Alpes
    • Bourg-en-Bresse
    • Pontcharra
    • Thiers
    • Tournon-sur-Rhone
  • Centre-Val de Loire
    • Bonneval
    • Chinon
  • Hauts-de-France
    • Soissons
  • Normandy
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine
    • Pau
  • Occitanie
    • Bareges
    • Luz-Saint-Sauveur
  • Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur

Artists featured here who painted in Caen (but not limited to) are (a link “” will be placed next to an artist name when their works are published. A “*” means that the artist did NOT work in Caen itself, instead worked in nearby villages and towns):

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