Charles Cottet

Cottet studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and under Puvis de Chavannes and Roll, while also attending the Académie Julian (where fellow students formed Les Nabis school of painting, with which he was later associated). He travelled and painted in Egypt, Italy, and on Lake Geneva, but he made his name with his sombre and gloomy, firmly designed, severe and impressive scenes of life on the Brittany coast.{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Cottet, Charles|volume=7|page=253}}{{Cite web |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T019844?rskey=Dju13z&result=1 |title=Grove Art Online |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=20 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120153903/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T019844?rskey=Dju13z&result=1 |url-status=dead }}[https://art.famsf.org/charles-cottet Art, Famsf, De Young/Legion of Honor]

Cottet exhibited at the Salon of 1889, but on a trip to Brittany in 1886 he had found his true calling. For the next twenty years he painted scenes of rural and harbor life, portraying a culture Parisians still found exotic. He is especially noted for his dark seascapes of Breton harbors at dawn, and evocative scenes from the lives of Breton fishermen.{{Cite web |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U195048?rskey=Dju13z&result=3 |title=Who was Who on Oxford Index |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=20 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120153604/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U195048?rskey=Dju13z&result=3 |url-status=dead }}

He was close friends with Charles Maurin, and his group included the painter Félix-Émile-Jean Vallotton. Cottet has often been associated with the picturesque seaside symbolism of the Pont-Aven School, though Vallotton famously painted Cottet as a leader of Les Nabis, beside Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel, in his Five Painters (1902–3; Kunstmuseum Winterthur). Cottet was more explicitly the leader of his own small movement, the Bande noire of the 1890s, which included Lucien Simon and André Dauchez, all influenced by the realism and dark colours of Courbet.{{Cite web |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T006091?rskey=Dju13z&result=5 |title=Grove Art Online, Bande Noire |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=20 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120154249/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T006091?rskey=Dju13z&result=5 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book | chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137470867_12 | doi=10.1057/9781137470867_12 | chapter=Death at Sea: Symbolism and Charles Cottet's Subjective Realism | title=Decadence, Degeneration, and the End | date=2014 | last1=Coughlin | first1=Maura | pages=203–223 | isbn=978-1-349-50080-2 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/paintings/seascape |title=Rodin Collection |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417180938/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/paintings/seascape |url-status=dead }}

Cottet's paintings can be found in many museums worldwide, including the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the British Museum,{{Cite web|title=print {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1938-1028-6|access-date=2021-02-25|website=The British Museum|language=en}} the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Musée d'Orsay in Paris,[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/in-the-land-of-the-sea-grief-2099.html?cHash=47eee70ec3 Musée d'Orsay, "In the Land of the Sea. Grief"]{{Cite web |url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/rayons-du-soir-16311.html |title=Musée d'Orsay, "Evening light" |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183723/https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/rayons-du-soir-16311.html |url-status=dead }} the Hermitage,{{Cite web|title=View of Venice from the Sea – Charles Cottet|url=https://www.arthermitage.org/Charles-Cottet/View-of-Venice-from-the-Sea.html|access-date=2021-02-25|website=arthermitage.org|language=en}} the University of Michigan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Filles Bretonnes|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/33008/view|access-date=2021-02-25|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}} the Ohara Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Old Horse in the Wasteland {{!}} OHARA MUSEUM of ART|date=6 December 2016|url=http://www.ohara.or.jp/en/gallery/old-horse/|access-date=2021-02-25|language=en-US}} the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=Charles Cottet {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/charles-cottet-1005|access-date=2021-02-25|website=americanart.si.edu|language=en-US}} the National Museum of Western Art,{{Cite web|title=Charles Cottet {{!}} Coast of Brittany {{!}} Collection {{!}} The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo|url=https://collection.nmwa.go.jp/en/P.1959-0037.html|access-date=2021-02-25|website=collection.nmwa.go.jp}} the Zimmerli Art Museum,{{Cite web|title=(Breton Seascape)|url=https://zimmerli.emuseum.com/objects/20476/breton-seascape|access-date=2021-02-25|website=zimmerli.emuseum.com|language=en}} the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=Charles Cottet|url=https://art.famsf.org/charles-cottet|access-date=2021-02-25|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}} the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web|title=Woman wearing a dress with puffy sleeves|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/818863?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Charles+Cottet&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=1|access-date=2021-02-25|website=metmuseum.org}} and the Musée Rodin.{{Cite web|title=Seascape {{!}} Rodin Museum|url=http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/paintings/seascape|access-date=2021-02-25|website=musee-rodin.fr|archive-date=17 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417180938/http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/paintings/seascape|url-status=dead}}

• 1908–09 Au pays de la mer. Douleur also called Les victimes de la mer, the Musée d'Orsay.
• 1905, Petit village au pied de la falaise, Musée Malraux, Le Havre
• 1900–10, Montagne, Musée Malraux, Le Havre
• 1896 View of Venice from the Sea, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
• 1896 Seascape with Distant View of Venice, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.[http://www.arthermitage.org/Cottet-Charles/index.html Art Hermitage]
• 1896 Portrait de Cottet, the Musée d'Orsay.

• List of the works of Charles Cottet depicting scenes of Brittany

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• [http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0198/T019844.asp The Grove Dictionary of Art. Macmillan (2000)].

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• {{cite web|url= http://www.harpers.org/media/pages/1910/12/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1910-12-0027810.pdf |title=Christian Brinton. Charles Cottet: Painter of Brittany }}. In Harper's Magazine, December 1910. Illustrations by Charles Cottet and Jacques-Emile Blanche
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050516081548/http://www.humrichfineart.com/cottet.html Biography at Humrich Fine Art].
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070610035805/http://www.oxfordgallery.com/Period_Artists/cottet.html Biography at the Oxford Gallery].
• {{in lang|fr}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210116/http://www.bretagne.com/fr/culture/peinture/charles_cottet Cottet et la Bretagne].
• {{in lang|fr}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930191749/http://www.insecula.com/contact/A008897.html Quelques œuvres de Charles Cottet] in Insecula.
• {{in lang|fr}}[http://musee-beauxarts.quimper.fr/htcoib/fccotte.htm Biographie et quelques œuvres] on the site of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper in Quimper, France.

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