Landscape Woodland Per Vincent Courdouan 1810-1893

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Superb oil on canvas measuring 40cm x 67cm plus frame 57cm x 82cm Good condition
signed and dated V.COURDOUAN 82 lower left
Vincent Courdouan and a very great painter from Toulon and one of the greatest naturalist painters of the end of the 19th century
He excelled in oil as well as watercolor pastel and pencil.
His works are increasingly sought after for the testimony they represent of our 19th century coastlines.
His works appear in major museums
A very large retrospective exhibition was held in 2001 in Toulon

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Vincent Courdouan is considered the leader of the Provençal school (Toulouse school): He is not only a great marine painter, a landscaper of the Var hinterland and coast but also an orientalist painter and above all a draftsman skilled. The catalog of his works lists 170 drawings and charcoals, 115 watercolors and gouaches, 145 pastels and 175 oils.
“Art is the only creator of beauty after God” he said.
1822 He learned drawing from Pierre Letuaire (1798 -1885) then entered the School of Fine Arts of the Navy, directed by the sculptor Félix Brun (1763 -1831)
1826 He decides to become a designer.
1829 He leaves for Paris to study engraving and enters the workshop of the Toulon painter Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin (1783 - 1855).
Return to Toulon where he settles permanently. He multiplies lead mines, washes, watercolors and sepias from nature.
1833 He was elected a member of the Var Academy: first lithographs published by Cancoin in the work “Picturesque walks and statistics in the Var department”
First shipment to the Paris Salon. He teaches watercolor and drawing in a workshop on the Champ de Mars .
1836 Travel to Paris, discovery of the Fontainebleau forest. He established relationships with Horace Vernet, Léopold Robert, Gudin.
1838 He obtains a 3rd class medal at the Paris Salon for watercolors and pastels.
1840 to 1860 He trains many students.
1844 He again obtains a 3rd class medal at the Paris Salon; he travels to Naples.
1845 He paints oils more regularly and exhibits in several cities in France, notably in Lyon.
1847 Travel to Algeria, 2nd class medal at the Paris Salon.
1848 Gold medal at the Paris Salon for “The Battle of the Romulus”, a naval battle scene which pitted this French frigate against 3 British vessels and which took place between the Hyères Islands and the Toulon Narrows, February 13, 1814.
1849 He was appointed professor at the École de la Marine in Toulon
1852 He received the Legion of Honor from Napoleon III
1857 He is appointed honorary director of the Toulon museum.
1862 Frédéric Mistral admits him to the Félibrige section.
1863 Vincent Courdouan, already aged 53, married in 1863 in Toulon, with Clara Martin, one of his students.
1866 Travel to Egypt
1878 Exhibition in Nice.
1883 Last sending to the Paris Salon.
1885 -1886 Exhibition in Hyères, Nice, and in Aix-en-Provence in 1886.
1893 Death at the age of 83; he left behind a considerable body of work.
His works are present in numerous museums: Arles, Draguignan, Flers, Montpellier, Narbonne, Nice, Nîmes, Toulon.
The Toulon museum notably contains a masterful work: “The Valley of Anguish”, painted in 1887: a chiaroscuro mountain landscape, with rocks lit by the pink light of the setting sun in a completely wild place, with realism gripping, . He also represented this place on several occasions (there is a charcoal drawing enhanced with white in 1854)
Vincent Courdouan painted many landscapes in various places in Toulon and the surrounding area: the harbor of Toulon, Cap Brun, the Basse Batterie, the Corniche du Mourillon, Fort Saint-Louis, etc.
Toulon, art museum: The Valley of Anguish; La Ponche in Saint-Tropez
Narbonne, Museum of Art and History: Boarding of Zouaves leaving for Algiers.
Ingres Museum in Montauban: View of Toulon, View of the surroundings of Toulon.
Fabre Museum in Montpellier: View of Africa, African Landscape.
Grobet-Labadié Museum in Marseille: Shaded river
Cantini Museum in Marseille: Le Brusc
Marseille Museum of Fine Arts: Marine, Landscape.
Louvre Museum Graphic arts department: Seaside at Mourillon, Ruins of a castle overlooking a valley, Undergrowth of oaks, undergrowth near Valletta.
Museum of Fine Arts of Nîmes: Marine.
Vincent Courdouan is considered the leader of the Provençal school (Toulouse school): He is not only a great marine painter, a landscaper of the Var hinterland and coast but also an orientalist painter and above all a draftsman skilled. The catalog of his works lists 170 drawings and charcoals, 115 watercolors and gouaches, 145 pastels and 175 oils. 1848 Gold medal at the Paris Salon for “The Battle of the Romulus”, a naval battle scene which pitted this French frigate against 3 British vessels and which took place between the Hyères Islands and the Toulon Narrows, February 13, 1814. The Toulon museum notably contains a masterful work: “The Valley of Anguish”, painted in 1887: a chiaroscuro mountain landscape, with rocks lit by the pink light of the setting sun in a completely wild place,
Caractéristiques Encadré
Caractéristiques Signé
Caractéristiques Sur toile
Courant artistique École française
Genre Classicisme
Type Huile
Thème Paysage