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- At his best, Henry Moret's paintings stand shoulder to shoulder with his peer, Claude Monet
- Featuring a quaint cottage evocative of Monet’s haystacks, this painting bursts with bright hues
- This beautiful landscape perfectly embodies the bucolic serenity of rural France
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1856-1913 | French
Les sabotiers devant une chaumière
(The Clog Makers in Front of a Cottage)
Signed and dated "Henry Moret 1902" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This remarkable Post-Impressionist masterpiece by Henry Moret, Les sabotiers devant une chaumière, perfectly encapsulates the tranquil beauty of the French countryside. A key figure of the Pont-Aven School, Moret masterfully combines bold, vibrant hues with atmospheric light to evoke the bucolic charm of. . .
1856-1913 | French
Les sabotiers devant une chaumière
(The Clog Makers in Front of a Cottage)
Signed and dated "Henry Moret 1902" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
This remarkable Post-Impressionist masterpiece by Henry Moret, Les sabotiers devant une chaumière, perfectly encapsulates the tranquil beauty of the French countryside. A key figure of the Pont-Aven School, Moret masterfully combines bold, vibrant hues with atmospheric light to evoke the bucolic charm of rural life. Painted in 1902, this idyllic scene features a picturesque hay-roofed cottage set against a luminous violet sky. In the foreground, clog makers pause in quiet contemplation, their figures blending harmoniously with the surrounding landscape. The billowing smoke rising from the chimney weaves through the composition, lending the work a dynamic sense of life and movement.
Henry Moret was born in Cherbourg in 1856, though little else is known about his early life. He entered military service as a young man in 1875, and it was during that period when Moret discovered the beauty of France’s northern coasts, particularly those of Normandy and Brittany. After his tour ended, he embarked on his artistic career, completing his formal education at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Leon Gérôme, and later, from about 1880, under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian.
He exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1880, submitting a landscape of the coast of Brittany. During his time in Paris, he frequently traveled to Brittany to paint the region he so loved. In 1888, he more firmly established himself in Pont-Aven, a town whose center had become an artistic refuge for artists such as the great Paul Gauguin, Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, Emile Jourdan and others. Under Gauguin's influence, he briefly explored the concept of Symbolism in his works, but after Gauguin left Pont-Aven in 1891, Moret returned to his Impressionist roots. He formed a relationship with the famed dealer Durand-Ruel in 1895, and his career was officially launched. Today, his works can be found in important museums including the Manchester Art Gallery, the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and others.
This important work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Jean-Yves Rolland.
Dated 1902
Canvas: 23“ high x 28” deep
Frame: 32“ high x 36” wide x 1 5/8“ deep
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Provenance:
Private Collection
M.S. Rau, New Orleans

Maker: | Moret_Henry |
Period: | 1816-1918 |
Origin: | France |
Type: | Paintings |
Style: | Post-Impressionism |
Depth: | 1.63 in. (4.13 cm) |
Width: | 36.0 in. (91.44 cm) |
Height: | 31.0 in. (78.74 cm) |
Canvas Width: | 28.000 in. (71.12 cm) |
Canvas Height: | 23.000 in. (58.42 cm) |

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