Albert Lebourg Paintings

Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928, Rouen), birth name Albert-Marie Lebourg, also called Albert-Charles Lebourg and Charles Albert Lebourg, was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (l’École de Rouen).

He originally studied architecture but switched to painting after enrolling at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. The artist went on to exhibit his works at the fourth Impressionist Exhibition in 1879, alongside Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. Though he spent many years living in Algiers, during the late 1880s he settled back in France, where he painted in the environs around Paris, Auvergne, and Normandy.

Lebourg’s works were popular with his contemporaries, and he was the subject of several solo exhibitions in Paris during his lifetime. He died on January 6, 1928 in Rouen, France. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by : Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit.