A desolate snow covered landscape of fishing boats and nets drying on the banks of the river Seine. Signed, dated 1885, painted on a quality mahogany panel and nicely presented in a later frame. “Pottier” label verso indicating possible inclusion in an exhibition. 

*Damoye was a significant follower of the Barbizon School of landscape painters. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts and went on to become a renowned and influential landscape artist noted for his sweeping skies, tree studded-plains, and vibrant farmlands. Damoye studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Léon Bonnat, one of the foremost figure painters and portraitists of the late nineteenth-century. Damoye, however, seems to have committed himself to landscape art from the beginning of his career. His earliest dated works from the late 1860s also clearly reveal the influence of both Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, from whom he acquired both a brighter range of colours and a looser, more ‘impressionist’ brush style. He was also one of the principal artists associated with the ‘school of Pontoise’, a group of young landscapists who painted primarily along the riverbanks of the Seine and Oise Rivers, north of Paris. Damoye first exhibited at the Salon of 1875 with a landscape titled L’hiver, and by 1879 he had won his first medal, a bronze or third class honour, beginning an unusually rapid rise for a landscape painter. In 1884 he received a second class medal, followed by a very prestigious gold medal at the grand, centennial Exposition Universelle (1889). He was inducted into the Légion d'honneur in 1893 and became a member of the Salon jury in 1900. Damoye's works can be found in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes, France; and the National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania. 

*Credit Wikipedia 

Condition 

In excellent original condition. 

 Size 

22cm x 41cm (35cm x 54cm framed) 

8.6 x 16.1 inches (13.8 x 21.3 inches framed)