page_title: Sèvres
section_title: Sèvres and artworks
hierarchical_section_title: Sèvres / Local culture and heritage / Cultural heritage / Sèvres and artworks
context_page_description: Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 9.9 kilometres from the centre of Paris and is in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the region of Île-de-France.
  The commune is known for its famous porcelain production at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, which was also where the abortive Treaty of Sèvres was signed.
context_section_description: Sèvres, near Paris but very rustic, attracted the greatest painters:
  Samuel William Reynolds painted Saint-Cloud et le pont de Sèvres (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
  The Douanier Rousseau painted in 1908 a Vue du pont de Sèvres (The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow)
  Sisley, who lived in Grand-Rue, painted the former factory, the bridge and the banks of the Seine, paths
  Corot is painted his famous Chemin de Sèvres (Musée du Louvre)
  Paul Huet painted are tasty and country views as possible (Musée de l'Île-de-France, Sceaux)
  Marie Bracquemond, wife of Félix Bracquemond (Le Chemin des Coutures à Sèvres, National Gallery of Canada) linked to the Group of impressionists and employed at the factory, is painted Sèvres. His most famous work: Sur la terrasse de Sèvres avec Fantin-Latour (leg. Caillebotte).
  Constant Troyon born in Sèvres in 1810, first painter of the Barbizon school are painted Chemin de forêt and the Maison Colas, the Prise de la culée du pont de Sèvres. Constant Troyon's parents worked at the manufacture de Sèvres, his father as a painter decorator, and his mother as a buffer. He was encouraged in the field of the arts by his godfather, Riocreux, the curator of the Ceramics Museum of Sèvres and a floral painter. He lived with his mother at the factory until the age of twenty. He first exhibited three paintings at the Paris Salon in 1833, including the Vue de la Maison Colas and the Vue de la Fête de Sèvres.
  Wassily Kandinsky lived for a year in Sèvres, in 1906-1907, at the Rue des Ursulines and then small Rue des Binelles, became Rue Théodore Deck. He painted the La Vie Mélangée.
  Alain Azémar, a painter from Sèvres, living in the Rue de Caves, a street which was the theatre of many "squats" protest-painted scenes of Sèvres on many occasions. Many of his watercolours were commissioned and are displayed by the city hall.
caption: Canvas of Douanier Rousseau: Vue du pont de Sèvres, 1908
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