Sailing Ships below a glowing Sky
Théodore Gudin (Paris 1802 - Boulogne-sur-Seine 1880)
Lot-No. 114
Proceeds : 1.900 €
Oil/canvas, 25 x 32 cm, sign. lo. ri. T. Gudin, min. rest., relined. - Marine painter, studied under A. Girodet-Trioson but soon followed Géricault a. Delacroix, as early as 1824 he was awarded a gold medal, a. the medal of the legion of honour, he exhibited not only in Paris but also at the Royal Academy in London, created numerous depicitions of the heroic deeds of the french marine on commission of king Louis Philippe, worked for the tsar in 1841, his marine paintings capture by their dramatic illumination a. their romantic mood. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), Hamburg, Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), London, Amsterdam, Brüssel, Moskau, Versailles, Breslau a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Théodore Gudin: Sailing Ships below a glowing Sky
Théodore Gudin (Paris 1802 - Boulogne-sur-Seine 1880)
Sailing Ships below a glowing Sky
Lot-No. 114
Proceeds : 1.900 €
Oil/canvas, 25 x 32 cm, sign. lo. ri. T. Gudin, min. rest., relined. - Marine painter, studied under A. Girodet-Trioson but soon followed Géricault a. Delacroix, as early as 1824 he was awarded a gold medal, a. the medal of the legion of honour, he exhibited not only in Paris but also at the Royal Academy in London, created numerous depicitions of the heroic deeds of the french marine on commission of king Louis Philippe, worked for the tsar in 1841, his marine paintings capture by their dramatic illumination a. their romantic mood. - Mus.: Paris (Louvre), Hamburg, Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), London, Amsterdam, Brüssel, Moskau, Versailles, Breslau a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.