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Charles Cottet (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]

Charles Cottet
Émile-René Ménard's Portrait de Cottet (1896)
Born	Charles Cottet (1863-07-12)12 July 1863 Le Puy-en-Velay
Died	20 September 1925(1925-09-20) (aged 62) Paris
Nationality	French
Known for	Painting
Notable work	Au pays de la mer. Douleur, 1908–09 Petit village au pied de la falaise, 1905; Montagne, 1900–10
Movement	Post-Impressionism

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][4]

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.[5]

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.[6][7][8]

Selected works

Cottet's paintings can be found in many museums worldwide, including the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the British Museum,[9] the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Musée d'Orsay in Paris,[10][11] the Hermitage,[12] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[13] the Ohara Museum of Art,[14] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[15] the National Museum of Western Art,[16] the Zimmerli Art Museum,[17] the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,[18] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[19] and the Musée Rodin.[20]

• 1908–09 Au pays de la mer. Douleur also called Les victimes de la mer, the Musée d'Orsay.
• 1905, Petit village au pied de la falaise, Musée Malraux, Le Havre
• 1900–10, Montagne, Musée Malraux, Le Havre
• 1896 View of Venice from the Sea, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
• 1896 Seascape with Distant View of Venice, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.[21]
• 1896 Portrait de Cottet, the Musée d'Orsay.

See also

• List of the works of Charles Cottet depicting scenes of Brittany

Notes

References

• The Grove Dictionary of Art. Macmillan (2000).

External links

• "Christian Brinton. Charles Cottet: Painter of Brittany" (PDF).. In Harper's Magazine, December 1910. Illustrations by Charles Cottet and Jacques-Emile Blanche
• Biography at Humrich Fine Art.
• Biography at the Oxford Gallery.
• (in French)Cottet et la Bretagne.
• (in French)Quelques œuvres de Charles Cottet in Insecula.
• (in French)Biographie et quelques œuvres on the site of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper in Quimper, France.

На других языках

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[de] Charles Cottet

Charles Cottet (* 12. Juli 1863 in Le Puy-en-Velay; † 20. September 1925 in Paris) war ein französischer Maler des Post-Impressionismus.

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- [en] Charles Cottet

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[fr] Charles Cottet

Charles Cottet né au Puy-en-Velay le 12 juillet 1863 et mort à Paris le 20 septembre 1925 est un peintre et graveur français.

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[it] Charles Cottet

Charles Cottet (Le Puy-en-Velay, 12 luglio 1863 – Parigi, 25 settembre 1925) è stato un pittore francese. Di impostazione post-impressionista, ma di orientamento chiaramente naturalista, fu uno dei fondatori del gruppo della "Bande noire".

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[ru] Котте, Шарль

Шарль Котте (фр. Charles Cottet; 1863, Ле-Пюи-ан-Веле, департамент Верхняя Луара — 1925, Париж) — французский живописец, график. Постимпрессионист.

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