page_title: Crozant School
section_title: Painters
hierarchical_section_title: Crozant School / Artists of the Crozant School / Painters
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Crozant La Sédelle en octobre (c 1923)
context_page_description: The Crozant School is named after Crozant, a Commune of France at the northern limit of the department of Creuse. It consists of a host of landscape painters who worked from 1830 to 1950 on the banks of the Grande Creuse, Petite Creuse, Sédelle and Gargilesse rivers near the communes of Crozant and Fresselines.
  The "Crozant School" is simply a convenient name to designate all those who have found inspiration in the Creuse valleys: it is a "school without a master". In little more than a century, nearly 500 painters frequented the region.
context_section_description: Jules Dupré (1811-1889)
  Armand Cassagne (1823-1907)
  Claude Monet (1840-1926) visited Fresselines from March to May 1889, where he painted a series on the site of the confluence of the two rivers. He created 23 paintings in the Valley.
  Father Lawrence Guétal (1841-1892).
  Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), who had the luck to win the jackpot of the National Lottery (1891), was now free from material cares and devoted himself totally to painting. In 1893 he chose Crozant as his favorite residence. Not far from the Crozant church is a bronze bust of Guillaumin.
  Ernest Victor Hareux (1847-1909) is known as a member of the dauphinoise school, but like many of his contemporaries he was involved for a time in the Creuse valleys.
  Ernst Josephson (1851-1906)
  Edouard Pail (1851-1916)
  Maurice Leloir (1853-1940), and the Leloir dynasty
  Alfred Smith (1854-1932)
  Pierre Ernest Ballue (1855-1928), is known as a member of the Barbizon School too
  Léon Detroy (1857-1955)
  Henri Charrier (1859-1950)
  Fernand Maillaud (1862-1948)
  Paul Madeline (1863-1920)
  William Didier-Pouget (1864-1959)
  Eugène Alluaud (1866-1947)
  Clémentine Ballot (1879-1964)
  Anders Osterlind (1887-1960)
  Solange Christauflour (1900-1953)
caption: Crozant La Sédelle en octobre by Alfred Smith, c. 1923
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