Pierre Thevenet (1870-1937)

Pierre was the eldest brother of the still-live painter Louis Thevenet. He started out as a self-taught artist with a preference for landscapes and still lives. Around 1910 he painted mainly landscapes in a luminist touch that leaned to the Fauvisim of Brabant. After the First World War he stayed in Paris. There he made many views of the borders of the Seine and Montmartre. His work sometimes resembles that of Maurice Utrillo. He often painted the sites around Drogenbos in Brussels. In France he painted traditional sites of Paris and the places revered by the impressionists, like Auvers -sur-Oise, Normandy and Aix-en-Provence. Noteworthy are his paintings representing the Porte de Namur, as he saw it in 1925 with his fountain and lanterns and his taxis.

Pierre Thevenet makes us relive a whole period of a gone by time. His paintings show us the Brussels countryside the way it was, without its factories and roads, the environment of Anseremme, the Lagune of Venice and above all the views of Paris after the First World War.