Project Description

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 32 cm x 46 cm

Signed lower right : E.de Retz

the willows

Eudes Alfred François Retz (Arras 1857-1930)

He was a pupil of Désiré Dubois X. Dourlens.

Receiver of the hospices and the charitable office of’Arras, from 1880.

Member of the artistic union commission, of the museum, academic schools

Medalist at the Tunis exhibition.

Nicham Ifthikar Cross Medalist.

Automotive enthusiast, he invented a carburettor and a silencer which earned him numerous awards at competitions and motor shows.

The art critics of the time called 'rational Impressionist' '.

He was the most in Arras the landscape for the late nineteenth century. He exhibited at the Salon soon 1880.

Source : Benezit

School Arras

“If during the wars Arras made heroes, peace returned , they are also the artist who participated in its radiation. There are at poets, there were painters.

Together with many painters gathered in Barbizon, l & rsquo; d & rsquo school Arras was contributing to an epic where the landscapes of painters, between late romanticism and advent of the & rsquo; Impressionism, is sought. L & rsquo; d & rsquo school; Arras gathers around Camille Corrot, Charles Desavary born in Arras, Constant Dutilleux was born in Douai, Gustave Henri Colin, Desire Dubois, Xavier Dourlens, Henry Arthur Bonnefoy born in Boulogne sur Mer and Eudes de Retz. In the nineteenth, Arras becomes an active artistic center, there are many courses in drawing and painting in schools and colleges, an academy, a museum.

The landscape painters of the & rsquo; Arras school bathe in the Northern light. Without always being at the height of the master Corot, their paintings have a certain charm. You can discover them at the Arras Museum. ”

Source : dictionary of northern lovers – Jean-Louis Fournier.

The places that inspired the painters of the & rsquo; Arras School

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