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LOUIS CABATWITHOUT FRIENDS, WITHOUT INTRIGUE, WITHOUT FORTUNE ...

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M. Cabat has arrived without friends, without intrigue, without fortune... II-IIIWeekly Drawing by éophile Bouchet: “Without friends, without fortune” VSeven pencil and ink drawings, one ink wash landscape 1-8 Six Louis Cabat cyanotype prints (unique) 9-14

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N°04-2018. LOUIS CABAT

When director of the Villa, a young artist, Henri Lucien Doucet ( 1856-1895), sent apiece considered too bold (scene of Harem) which entailed the non-renewal of Cabat atthe head of the Villa.

Cabat is considered a self-educated artist like hisfriend of early days, Charles Jacque. “Charles Jacquehad first been introduced to these Old Masters early in hiscareer (he was 17 years old in 1830) when Louis Cabat, thena young porcelain painter who lived next door to Jacque(passage Saint-Antoine), took him to the BibliothèqueNationale where they looked at prints by or after the work ofPoussin, Lorrain, Dürer, and Rembrandt.” (Rehs Gallery)

Louis (Nicolas) Cabat (1812-1893)“Cabat, a French landscape painter, born at Paris Dec.24, 1812; studied painting under M. Camille Flers(1802-1868), and visited the most picturesque partsof France. He first exhibited in the "salon" of 1833some landscapes which the critics pronounced to be toorealistic; but he persevered in this style of painting till1837, and became the founder of a school. From thatperiod till 1848 he only contributed twice to the annualexhibitions (in 1840 and 1841), but since 1848 hehas been a regular contributor. M. Cabat was electeda member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1867, andunanimously chosen Director, in Nov., 1878, of theFrench School of Painting at Rome.” (ThompsonCooper, Men of the Time, 1884)

Weekly Transmission 4 III Thursday 25 January 2018 .

Let us stop in front of the landscape of Mr. Louis Cabat, conceived in a genre that astonishes our public unaccustomedto broad and severe parties. It is the view of a road that goes up to a city of Judea; on one side of the road, tall treessprout vigorously; on the other, a terrain descends rapidly without any picturesque accident; in the foreground, two figuresand above, a poor horse grazing a few blades of grass; that's the whole landscape; there is neither torrent nor rock;nothing is simpler, so nothing is more solemn; the execution is at the height of composltion, calm, perfectly suited toobjects; there, no effect sought; it is nature thoroughly studied by the most poetic spirit, and transported on canvas by themost conscientious hand. One can not over praise the exquisite tone of the sky and the firmness of the grounds. We liketo do full justice to M. Cabat, who, son of his works, has arrived without friends, without intrigue, without fortune, toplace himself in the first rank among our best landscape painters. A child of the people, he was at the time of the JulyRevolution only a Goblin worker; today Belgian amateurs place his paintings between those of Hobemma and Ruysdael,and the one he sent us could be signed Nicolas Poussin.” (Revue du Lyonnais, 1841)

“Arrêtons-nous devant le paysage de M. Louis Cabat, conçu dans un genre qui étonne notre public peu habitué auxpartis larges et sévères. C’est la vue d’un chemin qui monte vers une ville du Judée; d'un côté du chemin, de grandsarbres s’élancent vigoureux ; de l'autre, un terrain descend en pente rapide sans aucun accident pitto resque ; sur le premierplan, deux figures et plus haut un pauvre cheval broutant quelques brins d’herbe; voilà tout le paysage; il n’y a ni torrent,ni rocher; rien n’est plus simple, aussi rien n'est plus solennel; l’exécution est à la hauteur de la composltion, calme,parfaitement approprié aux objets; là, point d’effet cherché ; c’est la nature étudiée à fond par l’esprit le plus poétique,et transportée sur la toile par la main la plus conscien cieuse. On ne saurait trop louer l’exqulse flnessoe de ton du ciel etla fermeté des terrains. Nous nous plaisons à rendre entière justice à M. Cabat, qui, fils de ses œuvres, est parvenu sansamis, sans intri gue, sans fortune, à se placer au premier rang parmi nos meilleurs paysagistes. Enfant du peuple, iln'était, à l'époque de la révolution de juillet, qu’un ouvrier des Gobelins ; aujourd'hui les amateurs belges placent sestableaux entre ceux d’Hobemma et de Ruysdaèl, et celui qu’il nous a envoyé pourrait être signé Nicolas Poussin.”(Revue du Lyonnais, 1841)

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Weekly Transmission 4 1 Thursday 25 January 2018 .

Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Étudiant romain, 1830s

Pencil and ink drawing, 230x300 mm, atelier stamp. 300 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Hercule barbare, 1830s

Ink drawing, 245x155 mm, atelier stamp. 300 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Pessimiste, 1830s

Pencil on tinted paper, 280x340 mm, some white additions, atelier stamp. 500 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Les Damnés, 1830s

Ink , 220x290 mm. 1200 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Potamoi, 1830s

Pencil and ink , 220x270 mm. 200 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Le Chevrier, 1830s

Small pencil and ink wash, 120x180 mm, atelier stamp. 150 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Etude de paysage avec nuages, c. 1840

Large ink wash, 120x180 mm, signed. 1500 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Etretat, 1880s

Pencil, 150x100 mm, atelier stamp. 150 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Pavé de Chailly, c. 1890

Cyanotype, 80x108 mm. 400 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Quais de Paris, c. 1890



Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Omnibus parisien, c.1890



Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Château de Chillon, Lac Léman, c.1890

Cyanotype, 108x80 mm.300 euros


Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Les Alpes



Louis Cabat (1812-1893). Parc de Versailles, c. 1890


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