Paul GALLARD LEPINAY (1842-1885) - Coastal scene in front of a jetty - Circa 1880

Paul GALLARD LEPINAY (1842-1885)
Coastal scene in front of a jetty
Oil on canvas signed lower left.
Size: 32 cm x 46 cm
Frame size: 41 cm x 55 cm
Restorations visible on the back
Circa 1880.

Paul GALLARD-LEPINAY (Aulnay, Charente-Maritime, 1842, Paris 1885).
Painter specialized in marine subjects. Became official Painter of the Navy in 1882.
Pupil of Claudius Jacquand. Gallard-Lepinay was more of a sailor than a landscape painter, and was later appointed painter to the navy. He exhibited at the Salon from 1864, where he sent La grande côte, prés de Royan au matin et soleil couchant sur l'adriatique (The great coast, near Royan in the morning and sunset over the Adriatic), as he not only worked extensively in the ports of Normandy and the west (La Rochelle), but also in Venice, where he appreciated the light over the lagoon. He painted compositions evoking historic naval battles, and commissioned "Combat du 13Prairial, An II" by the French government. Exhibited at the 1880 Salon, this canvas depicts "Le Vengeur", whose crew refused to surrender to the English and which sank on June 1, 1794 to the cry of "Vive la République" (in the Musée de Quimper), or current events such as Jules Grevy, Léon Say and Gambetta visiting the squadron in Cherbourg (Musée de Cherbourg).
His canvases remain good testimonies to a reasoned talent attentive to the changing light of the sea or ocean. Our painting reflects this mood.

-Gérard Schurr, Les petits maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920, Paris, Les Éditions de l'amateur, 1982, p. 35.
-La nuit, le deux mâts de Gallard-Lepinay", Sud-Ouest, March 29, 2011.
-Gérard Aubisse, Les peintres des Charentes, du Poitou et de Vendée: XIXe-XXe siècles: dictionnaire et notices biographiques, 2001, p543

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