Gaston Béthune
1857, Paris - 1897, Auteuril, France
Mediterranean Chateau With Water Jars, 1890s
Original Hand-Signed Watercolor -
circa 1890s
Artist Name: Gaston Béthune
Title: Mediterranean Chateau with Water Jars
Signature Description: Hand-signed lower left, Signed with a monogram lower right
Technique: Watercolor on paper
Image Size: 34 x 53 cm / 113.39" x 20.87" inch
Frame: Unframed
Condition: Very good condition.
Artist's Biography:
Gaston Béthune (French, 1857-1897)
Gaston Béthune is a landscape painter and watercolourist
from the French school.
He was born in 1857 in Paris and died in Auteuril (a suburb of Paris) in 1897.
Béthune began his formal studies with landscape painter Jules Achille Noël (1815-1881).
He continued his studies with historical painter Léon Bonnat (1833-1922) and
watercolorist Pierre-François- Eugéne Giraud (1806-1881) at the Beaux-Art
Academie.
Béthune debuted at the Paris Salon of 1876 and soon became an important figure
and regular contributor to the salons.
He was recognized for his Luminist landscapes in both oil and watercolor.
Although his career was shortened by illness and death, Béthune had an
incredibility successful life and career.
In 1881, he was knighted Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, one of France’s most
coveted honors.
In 1895 (i.e., two years before his death) the national collections were
enriched with one of his works entitled “La Charmeuse”, now kept at the Petit
Palais. The Musée d'Orsay also hosts two of his watercolors ("La plage de
Menton" and "Vue du lac d'Enghien").
He died at only 40 years old, on the rise. Shortly after, an exhibition of his
watercolors was organized in Paris by the famous Georges Petit gallery.
Gaston Béthune est un peintre et aquarelliste français
né à Paris en 1857, et mort à Auteuil en 1897, à seulement 40 ans.
Elève de Jules Noël, de Léon Bonnat et d’Eugène Giraud, il participa au Salon
de Paris à partir de 1876.
En 1895 (soit deux ans avant sa mort) les collections nationales s’enrichisse
de l’une des ses oeuvres intitulée “La Charmeuse”, aujourd’hui conservée au
Petit Palais. Le musée d’Orsay accueille par ailleurs deux des ses aquarelles
(«La plage de Menton» et «Vue du lac d’Enghien»).
Il disparait à seulement 40 ans, en pleine ascension. Peu après, une exposition
de ses aquarelles est organisée à Paris par la célèbre galerie Georges Petit.
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