Léon Printemps

• Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne): Municipal Museum – Parfum du soir – 1904. Donated by Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild. • Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts de Seine): - Médiathèque: Portrait of Sully Prudhomme – 1902. - House of Chateaubriand: La femme à la grille – 1898. • Cholet (Maine-et-Loire): Museum of Art and History – L’Automne – 1900. • Clairoix (Oise): Association Art, Histoire et Patrimoine de Clairoix: Church of Clairoix – Vallée de l’Aronde – 1910. • Clermont (Oise): Town hall – Bretonne d’Audierne – 1910. • Compiègne (Oise): Antoine Vivenel Museum – Au bois du rêve– 1899. Donated by Baron Alphonse James de Rothschild. • Laffaux (Aisne): Town Hall – Verdun – 1920. • Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne (Vendée): Historial de la Vendée – 30 paintings (donated in 2013). • Lullin (Savoie): Town Hall – Church – 1917. • Noirmoutier (Vendée): - La Guérinière: Museum of Traditions of the Island – Paysage. - L'Épine: Town Hall – Le marché de L'Épine – 1922. - Noirmoutier-en-l’Île: Musée du Château – Poster of the National Railways – Trips to the Ocean Islands – 1928. - Association des Amis de Noirmoutier – 25 paintings (donated in 2013). • Paris: Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la ville de Paris: Retour de pêche (Island of Yeu) – 1925. • Quimper (Finistère): Musée départemental Breton – 9 paintings (donated in 2015). • Riom (Puy-de-Dôme): Musée F. Mandet – Le lierre enlaçant la fleur – 1903. • Vauhallan (Essonne): Syndicat d’initiative – L’église de Vauhallan – 1897. • Versailles (Yvelines): Musée Lambinet – La gare des matelots – 1918.

The appeal of the work of Flemish and Dutch masters during Printemps’ visits to the Louvre Museum inspired him to travel to Belgium and the Netherlands on several occasions with a desire to better understand the art of these great Flemish and Dutch masters. Several paintings, which were the outcome of his first visits to Belgium, were presented at the Salon des artistes français (1898 and 1905), the Salon artistique des PTT (1905) and in regional exhibitions, in Lille (1898) and in Nantes (1906). In 1894 Printemps travelled to Belgium for the first time, presumably in the company of other students of Gustave Moreau, visiting Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen and Antwerp. Two years later he travelled to the Meuse Valley where he painted the Bayard Rock, a remarkable sight in Dinant. In 1897, he spent some time in the Netherlands visiting the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 1898, he returned to Bruges and Mechelen. In 1929 and 1933 he also took his son René, who was also studying to become a painter at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, on a trip to explore these two cities. Léon Printemps died on 9 July 1945, in his studio at 6 rue Furstenberg, where the Musée National Eugène Delacroix is currently located.

• Salon des artistes français, between 1893 and 1939. Honourable mention in 1900. • Salon d’hiver, from 1907 until 1934. • Salon des artistes de Paris. • Exhibition of the Amis des arts de la Somme, in Amiens. Silver medal in 1896. • Salon of the Union artistique du Nord, in Lille. Silver medal in 1896. • Salon de la Rose + Croix, 1897. • Salon artistique des PTT. • Exposition du Travail. Silver medal in 1899. • Salon of the Société des Amis des arts de Nantes, from 1902 until 1908. • Salon of the Cercle des Gobelins, from 1901 until 1903, 1913. • International exhibition of the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Monte Carlo, 1903. • World’s Fair in Paris Neuilly. Gold medal in 1900. • World’s Fair in Seattle, Washington. Gold medal in 1909. • Exhibition of the works of students of Gustave Moreau, Hessèle Gallery, 1910. • Prix du souvenir – Guerre 1914-1918, 1924. • Frattesi Award of the City of Paris, 1942.