Do you want to take a trip back in time and take a walk along the banks of the Oise as they were at the start of the last century?
The Camille-Pissarro museums in Pontoise and Gustave-Senlecq in L'Isle-Adam offer two exhibitions dedicated respectively to Antonin Personnaz and Pierre Gatier, two artists who fell in love with the valley and who immortalized its landscapes and moments of life.
Antonin Personnaz, pioneer of photography in Pontoise
Collector and photographer, Antonin Personnaz immortalized the Oise valley at the start of the 20th century.
Here, Emilio Boggio painting on the banks of the Oise, with the church of Auvers-sur-Oise in the background.
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It is difficult, seeing the photographs of Antonin Personnaz, to tell oneself that these photographs are more than a century old.
Recognized collector and possessing many Impressionist works that he bequeathed to museums, this enthusiast from a bourgeois family in Bayonne befriended several Impressionist artists such as Camille Pissarro, whom he visited regularly.
A pioneer of color photography when it was created in 1907 with autochromes intended to be projected, he surveyed the Oise valley, which he frequented from 1892, before settling from the end of the 1890s until 1914 in Auvers-sur-Oise, rue du Montcel, an artery that he photographed several times.
The exhibition “Antonin Personnaz, the valley of the Oise in colors” thus presents unpublished images produced between 1907 and 1914, from Pontoise to Auvers via Méry-sur-Oise, Nesles-la-Vallée or Saint-Ouen. -Alms. So many moments that he stares with his discerning eye of a confirmed collector. “These images all have a lot of charm and poetry,” explains Christophe Duvivier, director of the Pontoise museums, who has done a lot of work to locate and label each work. These images reflect a very special atmosphere and show landscapes, scenes of everyday life like the harvests, and historical moments like the 1910 flood. With a few nods to his impressionist friends. We have fun browsing the exhibition to recognize some still recognizable landscapes,like the bridge connecting Pontoise to Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône caught in the snow, or the main street of Méry-sur-Oise, with the church of Auvers in the background.
Until October 3, at the Camille-Pissarro museum, Wednesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Price: 4 euros and 5 euros.
Information on 01.30.73.90.77.
Pierre Gatier immortalized the Oise valley.
Here a watercolor from 1920 representing a tugboat in L'Isle-Adam.
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Pierre Gatier, the golden age in L'Isle-Adam
Contemporary of Antonin Personnaz, Pierre Gatier is a recognized engraver who used different techniques to fix scenes of everyday life and landscapes.
The exhibition "Pierre Gatier, of Parisian elegance on the banks of the Oise" brings together at the Louis-Senlecq art and history museum in L'Isle-Adam 130 works by this versatile artist who carried out extensive research and was the author of two treatises on engraving.
While many works represent Parisian life in the heyday, from the main avenues to private lounges, the exhibition which received the 2021 national interest exhibition label also presents some twenty views of the Oise valley, where the artist lived from 1920 to 1929. The one who was also official painter of the navy lingers by the river, which he immortalizes with a few watercolors but above all with engravings. We see in particular a barge or a tug at L'Isle-Adam, and several views of the Oise. It also moves away from the shore, with for example landscapes showing the church of Bruyères-sur-Oise or a farm in Nesles-la-Vallée. Without forgetting scenes of life like this “marriage in the countryside” immortalized in Ronquerolles in 1925.
Until October 3, at the Louis-Senlecq Art and History Museum, Wednesday to Sunday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Price: € 3.50 and € 4.50. Information on 01.745611.23.
