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Oil on canvas
French school
79/51 without frame
90/63 with frame
Attributed to Jean Marie Auguste Jugelet
Attributed to Jean Marie Auguste Jugelet, (Brest, August 25, 1805 – Rouen, October 22, 1874) is a French painter.
Son of a naval commissioner, student of Théodore Gudin, like him he became a marine painter, and began at the Salon of 1831. Since then, he was responsible for reproducing views of the main French ports, and made frequent trips on state buildings.
He was named a knight of the Légion d’Honneur on April 28, 1847.
Our painting is painted with exceptional virtuosity, the painter painted partly with glazes and used the background of the preparation to give transparency to the water.
The contrast of colors brings a disturbing atmosphere worthy of this pictorial movement that is romanticism.
A current that appeared in the 18th century in Germany, romanticism, breaking away from classical art, quickly spread to the rest of Europe. The Romantic movement will encourage the emergence of a more subjective, freer form of expression, where the compartmentalization between pictorial genres becomes less rigid. The sea is raging in these seascapes, the tension and movement always present, moreover the scenes of shipwreck or storm will be dear to romantic painters.
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