Cherbourg – The Artists – Mozin, Charles Louis
This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Cherbourg. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
Charles-Louis Mozin was born into a family of musicians, he studied with Xavier Leprince. Primarily a painter and lithographer of coastal landscapes, harbour views and seascapes, he exhibited at the Salons in Paris between 1824 and 1861.
Along with Eugene Isabey and Richard Parkes Bonington, Mozin was one of the first artists to paint landscapes depicting the beach and fishing port of Trouville in Normandy, which he discovered around 1825, and where he settled in 1839.
He also travelled in Germany and The Netherlands, where he frequently exhibited his work between 1840 and 1850. Landscape paintings by Mozin are today in the museums of Amiens, Honfleur, Rouen, Toulon, Trouville, Versailles, and elsewhere, while a number of views of Paris are in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
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Mozin painted several other places in Normandy, which will be featured eventually on this site. A link “⇠” to those cities will appear below when published.
- Cherbourg ⇠
- Honfleur
- Le Havre ⇠
- Rouen
- Trouville
Here are the artists we found who made paintings of Cherbourg.
- 🇬🇧 Bonington, Richard Parkes
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis
- 🇫🇷 Bourgeois, Constant
- 🇬🇧 Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell
- 🇫🇷 Crepin, Louis-Philippe
- 🇫🇷 Friesz, Othon
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis
- 🇷🇺 Gritsenko, Nikolai
- 🇫🇷 Gudin, Theodore
- 🇫🇷 Le Gray, Gustave
- 🇬🇧 Leitch, Richard Principal
- 🇫🇷 Mathon, Emile-Louis
- 🇫🇷 Mozin, Charles Louis
- 🇫🇷 Noel, Jules Achille
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne
Click here to see the map of where all the painters applied their art and read more about it.
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