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Many artists lived in Blainville-Crevon. One even talks of the "School of Blainville"!
Painters have long been attracted by the village and the surrounding landscapes. The city of Blainville is welcoming, with old houses, and, at least at the beginning of last century, many shops. Painters fixed on their canvases the magnificent 15th century collegiate church, and the various districts of the village, the mills on the river Crevon, etc.
Délorier House is often represented alongside the Collegiate Church, but also sometimes in standalone.
Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp) represents the family house as seen from North (1898); here on the left.
One of the first works of his brother Marcel (1902),
kept at the Museum of Philadelphia, adopts the same point of view, with a larger step back which makes it possible to reveal the bell tower of the Collegiate Church.
Jacques Villon, 1898.
Ferdinand Berthelot uses the same point of view as the Duchamp brothers, although with an even greater distance which allows him to obtain an interesting reflection effect in the waters of the Vivier (after 1912).
Ferdinand Berthelot, Le lavoir. Délorier House can be recognized in the back, right of Saint-Michel church.
Ferdinand Berthelot, La messe de minuit. Same viewpoint as for "Le lavoir".
Eugène Tirvert, around 1911, from Hôtel Lecompte.
Eugène Tirvert, around 1935.
Jean Banse, 1988, adapted from a photography taken around 1950.
Jean Banse, around 1990.
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