Having already visited the recently reopened Musée Henri Martin in Cahors, I was eager to see what I believe are the artist’s greatest works, on display in the Salle Henri Martin in le Capitole de Toulouse. The main works, two triptychs, were the subject of a commission from the State in 1900. They were presented for the first time at the Salon des Artistes in Paris in 1906 and exhibited at le Capitole from 1914.

Both triptychs are landscapes, one in the countryside, dealing with agricultural work in the fields, and the other in the city, depicting walkers on the banks of the River Garonne.

Henri Martin ‘L’été’ (1903)

Henri Martin ‘Le printemps’ and ‘L’automne’ (1903)

Henri Martin ‘Les Bords de la Garonne, Les Rêveurs’ (1906)

Henri Martin ‘Les amoureux’ and ‘Le poète’ (1906)

Le Capitole also displays some earlier works from Martin including ‘The Poets of Gay Knowledge’, from 1893, and ‘The Apotheosis of Clémence Isaure’, painted in 1897.

Henri Martin ‘Les Poëtes du Gay Savoir’ (1893)

Henri Martin L’Apothéose de Clémence Isaure (1897)