Émile Lambinet (1813, Versailles – 1877, Bougival) was a French painter of rural scenes. A student of Horace Vernet then Corot, he spent most of his life in Yvelines, at first in his birthplace of Versailles, then at Bougival from 1860.
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Works at the musée Lambinet
editHis cousin, Victor Lambinet, bequeathed the hotel Lambinet to the town of Versailles – it is now the musée Lambinet. Paintings there by Émile include :
- Banks of the Seine near Bougival.
- Fishers beside a pond, 1860.
- The Château des Roches at Bièvres, 1874
- Île-de-France landscape with two foreground figures, 1872.
- Bouquet of flowers, 18(??).
- Landscape with boatmen, 1864.
- Banks of a river, summer.
- Road, 18(50).
- Bank of a river.
- View from the Pavillon du Butard near Versailles.
Bibliography
edit- (in French) Peintures du musée Lambinet à Versailles, ed. Somogy et Musée Lambinet, 2005, s. l. (Italy), ISBN 2-85056-938-0.