ÉMILE LOUBON PAINTINGS FOR SALE & BIOGRAPHY
ÉMILE LOUBON
French, 1809–1863
BIOGRAPHY
Émile Charles Joseph Loubon studied with Jean-Antoine Constantin and François Marius Granet, accompanying the latter to Rome in 1829. He returned to Paris in 1831 and began associating regularly with Diaz, Rousseau, and other Barbizon school painters; it was around this time that Loubon began to concentrate almost exclusively on landscape painting. He served as director of the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles from 1845 to 1863, exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1833 and 1863 (earning a third class medal in 1842), and was a made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1855.
Museum Collections:
Fogg Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
Fonds Régional d'Acquisition d'Oeuvres Provençales, Marseille
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chambéry