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LOUIS ARTAN DE SAINT-MARTIN (1837–1890), POSSIBLY IN COLLABORATION WITH FÉLICIEN ROPS (1833–1898)
Beach in Berck
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Beach in Berck
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘Artan’ and dated ‘Berck’ in the lower left corner
Bears a monogram on the reverse
55.5 x 101 cm - 21 7/8 x 39 3/4 in.
- Jan de Maere Gallery, Brussels
- Private collection, Europe (acquired by the latter in 2023)
Robert L. Delevoy noted in 1985 that ‘Rops had to “flesh out” certain landscapes created by Artan’ in 1863 (Félicien Rops, Lausanne-Paris: Cosmos Monographies-Bibliothèque des Arts, 1985, p. 80). The two artists had met as early as 1852, at the Atelier Saint-Luc in Namur. The support of our seascape – a canvas bearing the mark of Deforge & Carpentier, a firm established in Paris on Rue Halévy and documented between 1856 and 1863 – fits with this chronology. Viewed in the light of the work’s stylistic characteristics and a ‘so-called “realist” approach to nature’ highlighted by Delevoy, these elements reinforce the plausibility of this hypothesis of collaboration with Rops.