View Of Saint-Pol-de-Léon (Sold)

Medium: Oil On Canvas
Size: 62 x 90.5 cm (24.4 x 35.6 in)

Sarazin de Belmont was a pupil of Valenciennes, the grandfather of French Landscape painting. She excelled at landscape and architectural painting herself, and regularly exhibited at the Paris Salon in the years between 1812 and 1867, a substantial Salon career for a woman painter. In 1831 she was awarded a second class medal there, and in 1834 she garnered first prize. Her paintings may be seen in the collections the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, in museums in Dresden, Hanover and Montauban, and in several French museums including the Louvre, Paris.

The view here is of the town of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, in Brittany, France. The local is famous for its 13th century cathedral on the site of the original founded by Saint Paul Aurelian in the 6th century. It was also the scene of a battle during the Breton War of Succession, where the Montfortists and their English allies defeated an army led by Charles of Blois.