The Embâcle of the Seine between Asnières and Courbevoie - Alexandre Nozal - 1891

Paris, Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Pastel et crayon graphite sur toile 32,8 x 50 Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Agence Bulloz


Born in 1852 in Neuilly sur Seine, Alexandre Nozal is first and foremost a landscape artist who has managed to cross the postimpressionism of which he is a representative, some portraits are also part of its production. Alexandre Nozal started at the Salon in 1876 with "a pond of Brenne". His
travels brought him, in particular, to Brittany, Berry, Normandy and the South of France, Provence and Corsica and, like many painters of his generation, to Algeria. Painter of water, he renders his impressions among the rivers, rivers, ponds and seashores, as well as at dusk or in the morning mist. This painting was painted in 1891 during a very hard winter, there is ice on the Seine, in the distance, the factory chimneys rise into a sunset sky.
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