Nicole Blanchard 1195

NICOLE BLANCHARD

Louvre Bouquinistes

The canvas is in excellent condition and framed in hand carved custom frame.
Frame measurements: 38 3/4" x 46 1/4"
Canvas measurements: 28 3/4" x 36 1/4"

Listed here is a beautiful oil painting by Nicole Blanchard. She inherited the masterly touch of her famous father, Antoine Blanchard. Nicole Blanchard took the brush strokes a step further with her unique vibrant colors and forms. Her painting is so dramatic and evocative that you can almost hear the sound of the passing stage couch on the cobble stone road. And you are drawn into the scene of street in the turn of the century. Here she depicts the embankment of Seine along the Louvre. This is a wonderful composition of old romantic Paris.

NICOLE BLANCHARD

Louvre Bouquinistes

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The critics have acclaimed Nicole Blanchard for being an imaginative artist who is in love with the spirit of Paris, the city of light, in the turn of the century. She has exhibited with great success in the major Salons of France and her paintings have shown in the most prestigious galleries in Europe and America. She is spiritually driven to paint the Paris in the turn of the century-la belle epoch- and Nicole Blanchard is now one of the most collectible artists today.

Biography

Nicole Blanchard was born in Paris in 1943. She is the daughter of the renowned master, Antoine Blanchard. She would join her father on location on the streets and boulevards of Paris and gained from him the marvelous mastery of his drawings. She gained a perfection of architecture that was faultless. She further learned to paint with a fine and accurate brush the numerous and lively characters of her beloved Paris .

The critics have acclaimed Nicole Blanchard for being an imaginative artist and a refined colorist who is in love with light as she recreates the atmosphere of yesterday’s Paris .

After completing her studies at the Beaux Arts in classical training with modern techniques of the Twentieth Century, Nicole Blanchard paints similarly to her renowned father the Paris of 1800’s and 1900’s but with greater fluidity and boldness. She is, however, as the critics point out, more dedicated in her brush strokes, more generous in her color and more alive in the movement of her characters.

Using her father’s palette for further inspiration, she paints the Paris that never sleeps, a city alive and bustling with activity. She is not content to simply paint historic buildings or national monuments but rather recreates a way of life as it was from morning to evening, in Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. She portrays Paris through a looking glass as it was.

She has exhibited in the major Salons of France and her paintings have been shown in the most prestigious galleries in France . Now her paintings are reaching the United States .

She tells us she is spiritually driven to paint the Paris of 1900 created by her father, Antoine, and she is now one of the most collectible artists today.