"Oil On Cardboard, Marine By Jean Etienne Karnec"
KARNEC Jean EtienneBorn in 1865. Died in 1934.
Austrian Active in France.
Painter of landscapes, seascapes, port landscapes, water landscapes. Orientalist tendency.
He worked mainly in Rouen, but also in Paris and Venice.
Some of his orientalist landscapes are treated in a thick paste which tends to blend the shapes. He is nicknamed the Delacroix of landscape.
His paintings are mostly small formats on cardboard like ours.
bibliogr. : Gérald Schurr, in: The Little Masters of Painting 1820-1920, value of tomorrow, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, t. II, Paris, 1982.
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