Home Online catalogues True to Nature. Open-air Painting 1780-1870 129. Charles Louis Mozin, attributed to Paris 1806 – 1862 Trouville-sur-Mer Paris in the Fog Monogrammed C. L. M. at lower left, this view of Paris is attributed to Charles Louis Mozin. The whole scene is covered in a veil of fog and painted thinly on canvas, with the exception of the sun – an impasto of white paint which breaks through the clouds – and its reflexion on the water. The treatment of the sky and trees is comparable to a view of the Pont Marie by the artist, preserved in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.1 Mozin was primarily a painter and lithographer of coastal landscapes, harbour views and seascapes. He trained in the workshop of Auguste-Xavier Leprince (cat. 145) for a brief period before his teacher’s untimely death after which, according to Mozin’s estate sale catalogue, “he had no other master but nature”.2 Along with Isabey and Bonington, he was one of the first artists to paint landscapes depicting the beach and fishing port of Trouville in Normandy, which he first visited around 1825 and where he eventually settled in 1839. 1https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/le-pont-marie-et-le-port-saint-paul. 2“il n’eut plus d’autre maitre que la nature”, Catalogue de la vente Mozin, Hôtel Drouot Paris, 7-8 April 1865.
Monogrammed C. L. M. at lower left, this view of Paris is attributed to Charles Louis Mozin. The whole scene is covered in a veil of fog and painted thinly on canvas, with the exception of the sun – an impasto of white paint which breaks through the clouds – and its reflexion on the water. The treatment of the sky and trees is comparable to a view of the Pont Marie by the artist, preserved in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.1 Mozin was primarily a painter and lithographer of coastal landscapes, harbour views and seascapes. He trained in the workshop of Auguste-Xavier Leprince (cat. 145) for a brief period before his teacher’s untimely death after which, according to Mozin’s estate sale catalogue, “he had no other master but nature”.2 Along with Isabey and Bonington, he was one of the first artists to paint landscapes depicting the beach and fishing port of Trouville in Normandy, which he first visited around 1825 and where he eventually settled in 1839. 1https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/le-pont-marie-et-le-port-saint-paul. 2“il n’eut plus d’autre maitre que la nature”, Catalogue de la vente Mozin, Hôtel Drouot Paris, 7-8 April 1865.