The goose keeper - Victor BINET (1849-1924)

Victor BINET (1849-1924)

was a French landscape artist of international renown during the Third Republic.
He exhibited at the Salon from 1878 and won a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1888.
His work is related to the painters of the Barbizon School.

He first worked as a set painter, then studied with the great animal painter Constant Troyon.
He settled in Paris and painted landscapes of the Parisian suburbs and the Normandy countryside.

The artist sought to paint the beauty of the landscape with accuracy. In his early years, his palette was quite dark. The search for light, advocated by the Impressionists, influenced him, without however letting him convert.
Binet is known for his qualities of fine observation, his open landscapes with a beautiful perspective and his light effects.

The State bought works from him at almost every exhibition and they can be found in French museums.