Jules Bahieu - Norman Cows

Jules BAHIEU Dour (Belgium), around 1860 - after 1895 Oil on canvas Signed lower left "J. Bahieu" 50.5 cm x 65.5 cm (75 x 90 cm with the frame) Beautiful period wooden frame and gilded stucco Jules Bahieu is a Belgian painter who, like other foreigners from the North, was attracted to Normandy in the 1870s and 1880s. He mainly painted the region of Normandy between Dieppe and Honfleur via Etretat. The painter's style shows eclecticism with the sense of naturalism (in the representation of cows) that he has in common with Nordic painters, an academicism (in the very balanced composition and the beautiful colors of nature) and a impressionist influence (in the rendering of the atmosphere and the colors of the sky). The Eugène-Boudin museum in Honfleur has two large paintings by Jules Bahieu (Sainte-Adresse and Etretat).