Impressionism, a historical reconstruction:

Pierre-Isidore Bureau

(1822-1876)

Most of his pictures

+ a topographical & thematical overview

 

Introduction:
What pictures are known of Pierre-Isidore Bureau? What pictures did he exhibit at the ‘impressionist’ expositions and at the Salon? I found just 8 works of Bureau. I render them all. In the subscriptions I will give suggestions which works might have been exhibited at the 1st ‘impressionist’ exposition of 1874 and at the 2nd ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1876 and at the Salon. 1 work is often given more than once as an option. Next I will render a topographical and thematical overview of the titles of the pictures he exhibited. See link for an account. For explanations and sources see at the bottom of the main page about Pierre-Isidore Bureau.
Further down this page I will render a thematical overview of the titles of his (exhibited) works. Enjoy!

Etchings after works of Pierre-Isidore Bureau:
These two etchings were made after works that Bureau showed at the Salon of 1868.
Note that the signature of Pierre Bureau in the etch of S1868-380 is quite different, than the one from the painting. It seems as if that signature, together with many other similar signatures, are added (posthumously?) by some-one else. The signature in the etch is more freely, just like in the other etch.

Disputable works of Pierre-Isidore Bureau:
The Egyptian lady is a quite other theme, than Pierre-Isidore Bureau mostly uses. The technique of a coloured lithograph isn’t known either of him, though some explicitly call him an etcher.
The landscape at dusk is described by ebay (iR42) as ‘Subject of a seaside moor and ruins at dusk (probably Dieppe)’. It could well be a seaside moor, but this is not clear. The ruins seem to me just houses. I don’t know where this ‘probably Dieppe’ is based on. So I render the title ‘Landscape at dusk’. At the back there is a signature with pencil writing unclearly ‘P Bureau’, the way it is written is deviant to most of the signatures known from his paintings, but it has some resemblance with the signature of the Dieppe painting. But, maybe the most used signature is added (posthumously?) by some-one else.

 

Sources: I found less than 10 pictures of Pierre-Isidore Bureau:
In books on Impressionism only Walther shows a work of Pierre-Isidore Bureau (R3,p55). On the internet Wikimedia renders 2 pictures of Bureau (iR6), the-Athenaeum 3 (iR2), eclecticlight 4 (aR1), theartstack 3 (iR68), Joconde 3 (iR23), Google-images 7, including a rare one (iR10). Artnet mentions auctions of 3 works without rendering a picture ( iR13). Yet most sources render the same paintings so in total I found less than 10 works of Bureau. Additionaly I found two etchings after 2 works he had exhibited at the Salon of 1868 (R265,no8+9=iR40).

 

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