Albert Lebourg

Honfleur – The Artists – Lebourg, Albert

September 21, 2022 / ° Artists, Honfleur, Normandy, West

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Honfleur. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Albert Lebourg
Albert Lebourg

Movement(s): Impressionism, Post Impressionism

Albert Lebourg (1849 – 1928), 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’Ecole de Rouen). Member of the Societe des Artistes Francais, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime.

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 Ile-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.

At the home of Impressionist art collector François Depeaux (1853–1920), Lebourg had the opportunity to converse many times with Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, and Robert Antoine Pinchon (an artist who greatly admired him).

He suffered a stroke in September 1920 that paralyzed the left side of his body. He nevertheless remarried in February 1921.

Albert Lebourg died in Rouen on 7 January 1928. Lebourg’s works are exhibited at the Musee 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.

Click here to read Lebourg’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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1878 - Albert Lebourg - The Old Basin of Honfleur
1878 – Albert Lebourg – The Old Basin of Honfleur
1893 - Albert Lebourg - At the Port at Honfleur
1893 – Albert Lebourg – At the Port at Honfleur
1893 - Albert Lebourg - The Mouth of the Seine, Honfleur
1893 – Albert Lebourg – The Mouth of the Seine, Honfleur
1894 - Albert Lebourg - The Honfleur port's bassins, sun setting
1894 – Albert Lebourg – The Honfleur port’s bassins, sun setting
1901 - Albert Lebourg - Honfleur, fishing boats
1901 – Albert Lebourg – Honfleur, fishing boats
???? - Albert Lebourg - Fishing boat in Honfleur
???? – Albert Lebourg – Fishing boat in Honfleur
???? - Albert Lebourg - Honfleur
???? – Albert Lebourg – Honfleur
???? - Albert Lebourg -Leaving the port of Honfleur
???? – Albert Lebourg -Leaving the port of Honfleur

TODAY: The port entry lighthouse is still there, but the area is much more built-up.The entry itself is done more towards the sea, using locks.

???? - Albert Lebourg - Seine estuary in Honfleur
???? – Albert Lebourg – Seine estuary in Honfleur
???? - Albert Lebourg - The Outer Port of Honfleur, late afternoon
???? – Albert Lebourg – The Outer Port of Honfleur, late afternoon

Lebourg painted in the following cities in Normandy ( links “⇠” to his other works will also appear below when published):

Honfleur was (and is) a very picturesque town, so it saw many artists capturing the beauty of this very scenic town. The reason it has so many tourists is obvious…. it’s very pretty. Here are some of the artists that have come to apply their art in the town (a link, symbolized by a “⇠“, to the artist’s works will appear when published. A “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Honfleur but instead worked outside of Honfleur in a nearby town).

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Today: The top of the Old Port Basin
Today: The top of the Old Port Basin
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Today: Port entry alongside the lighthouse
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