Charles Cottet Explained

Charles Cottet
Birth Name:Charles Cottet
Birth Date:12 July 1863
Birth Place:Le Puy-en-Velay
Death Place:Paris
Nationality:French
Field:Painting
Movement:Post-Impressionism
Works:Au pays de la mer. Douleur, 1908–09
Petit village au pied de la falaise, 1905;
Montagne, 1900–10

Charles Cottet (pronounced as /fr/; 12 July 1863 – 20 September 1925) was a French painter, born at Le Puy-en-Velay and died in Paris. A famed post-impressionist, Cottet is known for his dark, evocative painting of rural Brittany and seascapes. He led a school of painters known as the Bande noire or "Nubians" group (for the sombre palette they used, in contrast to the brighter Impressionist and Postimpressionist paintings), and was friends with such artists as Auguste Rodin.[1]

Biography

Cottet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and under Puvis de Chavannes and Roll, while also attending the Académie Julian (where fellow students formed Les Nabis school of painting, with which he was later associated). He travelled and painted in Egypt, Italy, and on Lake Geneva, but he made his name with his sombre and gloomy, firmly designed, severe and impressive scenes of life on the Brittany coast.[2] [3]

Cottet exhibited at the Salon of 1889, but on a trip to Brittany in 1886 he had found his true calling. For the next twenty years he painted scenes of rural and harbor life, portraying a culture Parisians still found exotic. He is especially noted for his dark seascapes of Breton harbors at dawn, and evocative scenes from the lives of Breton fishermen.[4]

He was close friends with Charles Maurin, and his group included the painter Félix-Émile-Jean Vallotton. Cottet has often been associated with the picturesque seaside symbolism of the Pont-Aven School, though Vallotton famously painted Cottet as a leader of Les Nabis, beside Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, in his Five Painters (1902–3; Kunstmuseum Winterthur). Cottet was more explicitly the leader of his own small movement, the Bande noire of the 1890s, which included Lucien Simon and André Dauchez, all influenced by the realism and dark colours of Courbet.[5] [6] [7]

Selected works

Cottet's paintings can be found in many museums worldwide, including the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the British Museum,[8] the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Musée d'Orsay in Paris,[9] [10] the Hermitage,[11] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[12] the Ohara Museum of Art,[13] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[14] the National Museum of Western Art,[15] the Zimmerli Art Museum,[16] the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,[17] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[18] and the Musée Rodin.[19]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 20 November 2016 . 22 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200222035622/https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00043252 . dead .
  2. Web site: Grove Art Online . 20 November 2016 . 20 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161120153903/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T019844?rskey=Dju13z&result=1 . dead .
  3. https://art.famsf.org/charles-cottet Art, Famsf, De Young/Legion of Honor
  4. Web site: Who was Who on Oxford Index . 20 November 2016 . 20 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161120153604/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U195048?rskey=Dju13z&result=3 . dead .
  5. Web site: Grove Art Online, Bande Noire . 20 November 2016 . 20 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161120154249/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T006091?rskey=Dju13z&result=5 . dead .
  6. Book: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137470867_12 . 10.1057/9781137470867_12 . Death at Sea: Symbolism and Charles Cottet's Subjective Realism . Decadence, Degeneration, and the End . 2014 . Coughlin . Maura . 203–223 . 978-1-349-50080-2 .
  7. Web site: Rodin Collection . 20 November 2016 . 17 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210417180938/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/paintings/seascape . dead .
  8. Web site: print British Museum. 2021-02-25. The British Museum. en.
  9. http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/in-the-land-of-the-sea-grief-2099.html?cHash=47eee70ec3 Musée d'Orsay, "In the Land of the Sea. Grief"
  10. Web site: Musée d'Orsay, "Evening light" . 20 November 2016 . 9 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183723/https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/rayons-du-soir-16311.html . dead .
  11. Web site: View of Venice from the Sea – Charles Cottet. 2021-02-25. arthermitage.org. en.
  12. Web site: Exchange: Filles Bretonnes. 2021-02-25. exchange.umma.umich.edu.
  13. Web site: Old Horse in the Wasteland OHARA MUSEUM of ART. 6 December 2016. 2021-02-25. en-US.
  14. Web site: Charles Cottet Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2021-02-25. americanart.si.edu. en-US.
  15. Web site: Charles Cottet Coast of Brittany Collection The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. 2021-02-25. collection.nmwa.go.jp.
  16. Web site: (Breton Seascape). 2021-02-25. zimmerli.emuseum.com. en.
  17. Web site: 2018-09-21. Charles Cottet. 2021-02-25. FAMSF Search the Collections. en.
  18. Web site: Woman wearing a dress with puffy sleeves. 2021-02-25. metmuseum.org.
  19. Web site: Seascape Rodin Museum. 2021-02-25. musee-rodin.fr. 17 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210417180938/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/paintings/seascape. dead.
  20. http://www.arthermitage.org/Cottet-Charles/index.html Art Hermitage

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