François Bocion Portrait en plein air du châtelain de Montagny et de ses enfants (Open-air portrait of the Chatelain of Montagny and his children), 1854 François Bocion was not a regular portrait painter. The few works he did complete in the genre were mostly commissions. The number of…
Marguerite Burnat-Provins Griche la borgne, Ma Ville (One-eyed Griche, My Town), 1915 Marguerite Burnat-Provins’s personality, like her artistic and literary work, encompassed two contradictory facets. She was born in Arras in northern France, married in…
Marguerite Burnat-Provins Le Criquet suivi de ses serviteurs portant des présents se rend au tombeau de ses ancêtres, Ma Ville (The Cricket, followed by his servants bearing gifts, approaches the tomb of his ancestors, My Town), March 1924 Marguerite Burnat-Provins was the eldest of eight children born to a cultivated family in the Pas-de-Calais. She began drawing at the age of…
Gustave Buchet Paravent. Baigneuses au bord de l’eau (Screen. Bathers by the water), 1923 The spring of 1920 saw Gustave Buchet leave Geneva for Paris, where he was to spend the next twenty or so years. By…
Marius Borgeaud Intérieur aux deux verres (Interior with two glasses), 1923 Marius Borgeaud’s interiors are bathed in warm light that seems to bring time to a standstill. Each object is a solid, immediately identifiable…
Ernest Biéler Les Tresseuses de paille (Women weaving straw), 1906-1907 Vaud-born Ernest Biéler first visited the Valais village of Savièse in 1884, moving there to settle in 1900. From 1906 on, he became…
Robert Breer Form Phases IV, 1954 Robert Breer was a recent Stanford graduate when he moved to Paris in 1949 to build his career as a painter. His budding style was…
Marius Borgeaud Bretonnes à la pharmacie (Breton women at the pharmacy), 1912 Marius Borgeaud spent the months from spring to autumn in the Breton village of Rochefort-en-Terre every year from 1909 to 1919. In 1911 and 1912,…
François Bocion Saint-Saphorin, 1889 This large painting depicts the village of Saint-Saphorin, recognisable from the unfinished church steeple. The brown tones of the stepped Lavaux vineyards and the Alpine…
François Bocion Les Bourla-Papey (The Bourla-Papey Insurrection), undated François Bocion trained under Charles Gleyre in Paris, trying his hand at history painting on his return to Lausanne where he worked for the rest…
François Bocion, Jakob Lorenz Rüdisühli Le prêtre pêchant (Priest angling), 1868-1869 The painter and copperplate engraver Jakob Lorenz Rüdisühli moved to Basel in 1868. There, he set about popularising drawings by leading Swiss artists in several…
Benjamin Samuel Bolomey Portrait d'un jeune patricien (Portrait of a young patrician), c. 1810 ? Unusually for French-speaking Swiss artists of his generation, Benjamin-Samuel Bolomey, a native of Lausanne, emigrated to Holland for a career at the royal court. He…
Jules Blancpain Baigneuses (Women bathing), 1891 Jules Blancpain was born to the famous watchmaking dynasty of the same name and trained in watchmaking in Saint-Imier with a view to joining the…
On display Banu Cennetoğlu Gurbet’s Diary (27.07.1995 – 08.10.1997), 2016-2017 The Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu trained as a photographer. She is interested in classification, access to knowledge, information dissemination and the political aspects of archives…
Otto Charles Bänninger Buste de Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (Bust of Charles Ferdinand Ramuz), 1942 Otto Charles Bänninger studied sculpture with Franz Wanger in Zurich before moving to Paris in 1920 to join Émile-Antoine Bourdelle's studio at the Académie de…
On display François Bocion Le remorqueur (The Tug), 1867 September 24, 1859. The Lake Geneva tugboat operating company launches the Mercure in Morges harbour as a crowd of onlookers claps and cheers. The steamship,…
Marius Borgeaud Le mal de dents (Toothache), 1911 Like many other artists, Marius Borgeaud spent much of his career painting in Brittany. But while others focused on picturesque Breton scenes, from widows mourning…
Alice Bailly Ier Chant (First Song), 1918 In June 1918, Alice Bailly became acquainted with Werner Reinhart, a German-speaking Swiss philanthropist renowned for his patronage of the arts. The pair met in…
Alice Bailly Rade de Genève ou Vol de mouettes (Geneva Harbour or Flight of Gulls), 1915 Alice Bailly was on the cusp of turning forty when her decision to adopt an avant-garde style paid off in Paris. She became friends with…
Alice Bailly Joueuses d'osselets (Women playing knucklebones), 1912 After Alice Bailly moved to Paris in 1906, she began to move in Fauvist circles. At the start of the 1910s, her style changed dramatically…
Auguste Baud-Bovy Portrait d'enfant. Valentin en train de peindre, grandeur nature (Portrait of a Child. Valentin painting, life size), 1883 As a young man, Auguste Baud was influenced by his friendship with the artistically and intellectually inclined Bovy family of Geneva, who introduced him to…
Eugène Burnand Chrétien et Plein d'Espoir capturés par le géant Désespoir (Christian and Hopeful captured by the giant Despair), c. 1897 Seeing Fra Angelico's frescos on a trip to Italy in 1877 confirmed Eugène Burnand's intention to turn to religious subjects: from the latter half of…
François Bocion La Dispute religieuse de Lausanne (The Lausanne Disputation), 1857 The lands now known as the Vaud belonged to the House of Savoy and the Lausanne bishopric until they were annexed by Bern early in…
François Bocion Lavandières à San Remo (Washerwomen, San Remo), 1877 François Bocion rarely travelled far from Lake Geneva, the subject of most of his paintings. When he did venture away from his home region, he…
Ernest Biéler Portrait de Nathalie Biéler, sœur de l'artiste (Portrait of the artist's sister Nathalie Biéler), 1885 Ernest Biéler moved from his native Switzerland to Paris in 1880 to study at the Atelier suisse, the Académie Colarossi and the Académie Julian. In…
François Bocion Venice, 1882 François Bocion first visited Venice in the summer of 1874. Having honed his talent on and around Lake Geneva, he now hoped travel would give…
Émile-Antoine Bourdelle Vierge à l’offrande (Virgin of the Offering), 1920 In 1914, war broke out between France and Germany, with Alsace and Lorraine in the thick of the fighting. The industrialist Joseph Vogt, mayor of…
