Luce – Sailboats in the Trieux Estuary near Kermouster

Maximilien Luce
(1858 Paris – 1941 Paris)

SAILBOATS IN THE TRIEUX ESTUARY NEAR KERMOUSTER

Painted around 1914
Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard, 26.5 x 37 cm
Signed lower left and lower right: Luce, titled on the reverse: Etude pour l’estuaire de Trieux, Bretagne nord and stamped with the collector’s stamp Collection Jean Bouin Luce

Provenance: Collection Jean Bouin Luce
Literature: Jean Bouin-Luce and Denise Bazetoux, Maximilien Luce, catalogue de l’œuvre peint, vol. II, Paris 1986, no. 1582, ill. p. 389

Luce was particularly fond of the mouth of the Trieux River near Kermouster. The headland jutting out into the sea, the boats, the colours of the sky and the water, which he captured in this small oil painting on paper, were incorporated into the oil painting ‘Kermouster, les Trois Barques’ (Musée Maximilien Luce, Mante-la-Jolie) from 1914.