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Boulevard de Clichy under Snow
Purchased 1930
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
carriage
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
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man
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society
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<p>Goeneutte painted this snowy scene at the age of only twenty-two. At the time he lived very close to the boulevard de Clichy in Paris, and he was to make a number of paintings and etchings of the buildings and people on this busy thoroughfare. The painting can be seen as a quiet celebration of the metropolitan elegance of Paris, but its title shows that Goeneutte saw the wintry weather as important element in the composition. The artist admired Manet and was a friend of Renoir in this period. In later years, however, his choice of subjects and style were both relatively traditional.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
2 October 2010 – 30 January 2011
2011-01-30
2 October 2010 – 30 January 2011
2011-01-30
2010-10-02
Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)
2010-10-02
Bilder Einer Metropole, die Impressionisten in Paris
Loan-out
17 October 2011 – 29 April 2012
2012-04-29
17 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-17
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna, Austria)
10 February 2012 – 29 April 2012
2012-04-29
2012-02-10
Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)
http://www.kunsthaus.ch/
2011-10-17
Winter in European Art
Loan-out
The Boulevard de Clichy under Snow
support: 600 × 733 mm
frame: 750 × 610 × 100 mm
Purchased 1930
<p>Goeneutte painted this snowy scene at the age of only twenty-two. At the time he lived very close to the boulevard de Clichy in Paris, and he was to make a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> of the buildings and people on this busy thoroughfare. The painting can be seen as a quiet celebration of the metropolitan elegance of Paris, but its title shows that Goeneutte saw the wintry weather as important element in the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>. The artist admired Manet and was a friend of Renoir in this period. In later years, however, his choice of subjects and style were both relatively traditional.</p>
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<p><b>Norbert Goeneutte</b> 1854-1894</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/goeneutte-the-boulevard-de-clichy-under-snow-n04538" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04538</span></a> <b>Le Boulevard de Clichy, par un Temps de Neige</b> (The Boulevard de Clichy under Snow) 1876</p>
<p>Inscribed 'N. Goeneutte' b.l. 
<br/>Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 28 7/8 (60 x 73.5) 
<br/>Purchased from Herbert Coleman through Arthur Ruck (Clarke Fund) 1930 
<br/><i>Prov</i>: M. Cherfils, Paris; with Gustave Tempelaere, Paris, 1895; with Aimé Diot, Paris; Diot sale, Drouot, Paris, 8-9 March 1897, lot 109 (380 frs.); ?; Herbert Coleman, London 
<br/><i>Exh</i>: Paris Salon, May-June 1876 (924), as 'Le boulevard de Clichy, par un temps de neige'; <i>French Paintings and Drawings</i>, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, February-April 1932 (20); <i>Impressionism: its Masters, its Precursors, and its Influence in Britain</i>, RA Diploma Galleries, London, February-April 1974 (60, repr.) 
<br/><i>Repr</i>: John Rothenstein, <i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i> (London 1947), pl.43</p>
<p>A view of the well-known boulevard in Montmartre. Painted in Paris in the winter of 1875-6 and exhibited at the Paris <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/salon" title="Glossary definition for 'Salon'"><span>Salon</span></a> in May 1876, together with 'In Class', Goeneutte's first contributions to the Salon. The artist made in 1876 an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> of the same title which follows the left-hand section very closely, though with the addition of two or three extra figures. A small <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of the same view (oil on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panel</span></a>, 19 x 25cm), but after the thaw had set in and with workmen beginning to clear the snow, was sold at Sotheby's on 3 May 1967, lot 63 repr., and was afterwards included in the <i>Summer Exhibition</i> at the O'Hana Gallery, London, in May-September 1968 (24, repr.).</p>
<p>A rather similar oil sketch (oil on panel, 15.5 x 8.5cm), showing the roadway and buildings on the left on a wintry day but without any snow, was exhibited in <i>Collectors Choice</i> at Gimpel Fils, London, in November 1953 (9, repr.) and was sold at Christie's on 30 June 1967, lot 64A, repr. This also served as the basis for an etching, with a few modifications. Yet another etching (probably based on a painting, though none has been traced) shows the same view in summer, with a flower-seller's barrow in the foreground. It is dated on the plate either 1878 or, more probably, 1877, the last figure being unclear.</p>
<p>The Goeneutte Memorial Exhibition at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/ecole-des-beaux-arts" title="Glossary definition for 'Ecole des Beaux Arts'"><span>Ecole des Beaux-Arts</span></a>, Paris, in 1895 included two paintings entitled 'The Boulevard de Clichy' (57 and 119, the latter lent by M. Baranger) and one called 'Snow Effect' (79, lent by M. Gérin).</p>
<p>Goeneutte was living in 1876 just off the Boulevard de Clichy, at 21 Rue Bréda (now Rue Henri Monnier).</p>
<p><b>Published in</b>: 
<br/>Ronald Alley, <i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.289-90, reproduced p.289</p>

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actions: postures and motions adults architecture carriage cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France man Paris, Boulevard de Clichy people places seasons snow society street townscapes / man-made features transport: land tree walking weather winter woman