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ALBERT LEBOURG (Montfort-sur-Risle 1849-1928 Rouen) An Algerian Landscape.
Black chalk and stump work on light tan wove paper, 1873. 315x470 mm; 12 1/2x18 1/2 inches. Initialed, annotated and titled "Près Palestro (Algerie)" in ink, upper left recto.
Lebourg beagn studying art in his native Rouen and was referred to be appointed as a drawing professor at the Société des Beaux-Arts in Algiers after his talent was noticed in Rouen by the local art collector Laurent Laperlier. He married in Algeirs in 1873 and remained there until the summer of 1877 when he resigned from his teaching position and returned to Paris with numerous paintings of the casbah, mosques and the Admiralty. In 1876, Lebourg exhibited his works for the first time together with Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other Impressionist artists. In the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition of 1879, Lebourg exhibited 30 works with Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas, presenting paintings and drawings executed in Algiers. In the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition of 1880, he exhibited 20 works depicting Rouen, Paris and Algiers.
