Norbert Goeneutte
View of St. Lazare Railway Station, Paris
1886
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 23 3/4 × 27 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (60.3 × 69.2 × 7.9 cm.)
Unframed: 18 3/4 × 22 1/4 in. (47.6 × 56.5 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.45.118
This panoramic cityscape, painted from Norbert Goeneutte’s studio on the rue de Rome, shows the Pont de l’Europe and the Gare Saint-Lazare with Paris in the distance. The large building on the horizon is Charles Garnier’s Opera House, which opened in 1875.
Billowing clouds of steam, rising from train engines, recall Claude Monet’s treatment of the same subject in his compositions from the late 1870s. Like the Impressionists, Goeneutte specialized in views of modern Paris, recording the everyday lives of both working class and affluent Parisians.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris, by purchase, 1888; from the artist.
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris, by purchase, 1888; from the artist.
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, "Exhibition of the George A. Lucas Art Collection", 1911, cat. #181.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew", January 12-February 11, 1940.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From Ingres to Gauguin", November 13-December 30, 1951, cat. #147.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute", October 12-November 21, 1965, cat. #117, illus. p. 34.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "19th Century European Painting", June 24-September 7, 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art Downtown Gallery, "Selections from the Lucas Collection", July 21-August 22, 1975.
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, "A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, Art Agent 1860-1909", January 28-March 11, 1979.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, "Paris in the Belle Epoque: People and Places", March 1-April 6, 1980.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., "Manet and Modern Paris", December 5 1982-March 3, 1983.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1984-Aug. 1, 1986.
Heckscher Museum, New York, NY, "Illuminations: Images of Landscape in France, 1855-1885", March 10-April 29, 1990; circulated to Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, May 26- July 29, 1990; Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN, September 8-November 10, 1990.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The George A. Lucas Collection: Maryland's Treasure", circulated to Government House, Annapolis, January 6-April 21,1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Triumph of French Painting, Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse", March 12-July 16, 2000; circulated to The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Dayton Art Institute, The Royal Academy of Arts, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, through Jan. 6, 2002.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; Naples Museum of Art, FL, February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art", October 1- December 31, 2006.
Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, "Art in the Age of Steam", April 18-August 10, 2008, circulated to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 13, 2008-January 18, 2009, cat. no. 61.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, "Images of a Capital - The Impressionists in Paris", October 2, 2010-January 30, 2011, cat. no. 28.
Musée d'Orsay, "Vivement le cinema!" September 27, 2021-January 16, 2022.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Modern Painting Isms and How They Grew", January 12-February 11, 1940.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From Ingres to Gauguin", November 13-December 30, 1951, cat. #147.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The George A. Lucas Collection of the Maryland Institute", October 12-November 21, 1965, cat. #117, illus. p. 34.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "19th Century European Painting", June 24-September 7, 1969.
The Baltimore Museum of Art Downtown Gallery, "Selections from the Lucas Collection", July 21-August 22, 1975.
The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, "A Baltimorean in Paris: George A. Lucas, Art Agent 1860-1909", January 28-March 11, 1979.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, "Paris in the Belle Epoque: People and Places", March 1-April 6, 1980.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., "Manet and Modern Paris", December 5 1982-March 3, 1983.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1984-Aug. 1, 1986.
Heckscher Museum, New York, NY, "Illuminations: Images of Landscape in France, 1855-1885", March 10-April 29, 1990; circulated to Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD, May 26- July 29, 1990; Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN, September 8-November 10, 1990.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The George A. Lucas Collection: Maryland's Treasure", circulated to Government House, Annapolis, January 6-April 21,1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Triumph of French Painting, Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse", March 12-July 16, 2000; circulated to The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Dayton Art Institute, The Royal Academy of Arts, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, through Jan. 6, 2002.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; Naples Museum of Art, FL, February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art", October 1- December 31, 2006.
Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, "Art in the Age of Steam", April 18-August 10, 2008, circulated to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 13, 2008-January 18, 2009, cat. no. 61.
Museum Folkwang, Essen, "Images of a Capital - The Impressionists in Paris", October 2, 2010-January 30, 2011, cat. no. 28.
Musée d'Orsay, "Vivement le cinema!" September 27, 2021-January 16, 2022.
"BMA Today," Fall 2006, ill. p. 24.
Ian G. Kennedy, "The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam," New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 287, color ill., cat. no 61.
"Bilder einer Metropole: Die Impressionisten in Paris," Essen: Museum Folkwang, 2010, p. 98, cat. no. 28, color ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
Le Foll, Josephine. L'Impressionisme. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2020.
Inscribed: FRONT: signed and dated, bottom right, 'Norbert Goeneutte Paris 1887'. FRAME, BACK: 'BMA cat. #117'; CR, stamp of palette.
On View at the BMA
