CHARLES LACOSTE (1870-1959) BOULEVARD PASTEUR, PARIS, CIRCA 1905 Oil on canvas Signed lower left Oil on canvas; signed lower left 55 X 38,5 CM - 21 5/8 X 15 1/8 IN. We would like to thank Mr. Frédéric Chappey for the information he provided in the preparation of this sheet. "I recognize myself as a member of the family of French landscape painters, great and small, who have reigned for three or four hundred years through their sense of poetry, light and their taste for order, measure, finesse and accuracy, calm: this is part of our country. However, without seeming to break with ordinary tradition, my painting remains singular in appearance, character and spirit. [...] Another age will tell whether it will have been powerful enough to outlive me. " Letter from Charles Lacoste to Francis Jammes, dated March 24, 1921.