Gustave LOISEAU (French, 1865 - 1935) La neige,... Lot 36

Gustave LOISEAU (French, 1865 - 1935) La neige, Pontoise, le pont de chemin de fer, glaçons sur l'Oise, 1914. Canvas signed and dated lower left. Labels on the back with numbers "20442", "10511" and directly on the frame "7860". H. 60 W. 81 cm. (restorations) Certificate and notice of inclusion in the catalogue raisonné by Mr Didier Imbert dated October 8, 1993. Provenance : - gallery Durand Ruel, n°7860 - sale at Meaux, Me Corneillan, March 22nd 1992, reproduced on the cover of the catalogue, n°13. - private collection, Vienna; by descent. Bibliography: - Christophe DUVIVIER, Loiseau paysages d'Île-de-France et de Normandie, Paris, Somogy éditions d'art, 2018, for comparable works. - Gustave Loiseau, catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée Camille Pissarro, 2018, to be compared with illustrated works pp. 62, 63, 67 presenting the same Pontoise bridge. From 1887 Gustave Loiseau decided to devote his life to painting. He then stayed in Pont-Aven, where he and his acolytes Maxime Maufra, Henry Moret and Émile Bernard benefited from the advice of Paul Gauguin. From 1904 to 1935 he settled in Pontoise. His painting then explores the cycle of the seasons from views of the Hermitage district, where like our painting of his bridge. This steel lattice construction from 1860, and in service until 1932, was the bridge of the city's first railway line. Gustave Loiseau's painting unfolds there between noisy modernity and gentle winter variations. The exhibition dedicated to the post-impressionist artist at the Camille Pissarro Museum allowed visitors to appreciate the Pontoise Bridge in the evolution of the seasons confronted with that of his painting. Dated 1914, our work fits perfectly into this series. Often represented as being caught by ice, the metal bridge appears frozen, contrasting between the speed of the steam engine and the slowness of the ice cubes transported by the Oise.