Rue Félix Ziem

Félix Ziem is a French painter attached to the Barbizon School. He is renowned for his seascapes and landscapes of Venice and Constantinople. Orientalist painter, he is considered as one of the precursors of impressionism. Prolific painter, his production is estimated at more than 10 000 painted works. In November 1911 at his death, he was an admired and recognized painter, the first artist to have entered the Louvre Museum during his lifetime through the Chauchard legacy in 1910. He also left a considerable number of paintings, pochades and sketches painted in his studios in Paris and Nice. His widow, with the help of the artist Eugène-Camille Lambert (1871-1948), made an inventory of this studio collection, numbered and marked with the red stamp of the studio collection on the works. She then organized the donation of works to numerous museums (mainly Beaune, Martigues and Dijon), which allowed her husband's work to be distributed to French museums.