Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin (1841—1927) was an artist and member of the French Impressionist circle.

Armand Guillaumin Summary

• Born in Paris and died in its periphery, in Orly
• Met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro as a student at the Académie Suisse
• Worked as a railway official until he decided to pursue a career in art
• Influenced Paul Cézanne’s early paintings with his etchings of nature
• Exhibited at the Salon des Refusés in 1863 and then in six of the eight Impressionist exhibitions
• Particularly noted as a landscapist of the Crozant region in central France

Armand Guillaumin’s Famous Paintings

• The Seine (1867)
• Landscape (1870)
• View of the Seine (1871)
• Sunset at Ivry (1873)
• La Place Valhubert (1875)
• River Scene (c. 1890)
• The Haystacks (c. 1895)
• Agay (c. 1901)
• Landscape with Ruins (1897)
• Snowy Landscape in Crozant (undated)