Vincent Courdouan (attributed To) - Lively Cove Near Toulon

Vincent COURDOUAN (Attributed to) Toulon, 1810 - Toulon, 1893 Oil on canvas 92 x 62 cm (98 x 68 cm with the frame) Vincent Courdouan from Toulon is considered the leader of the Provençal school. He is known for his landscapes of the Var hinterland and the coast. His works are kept in many museums in the south of France (Arles, Draguignan, Flers, Montpellier, Narbonne, Nice, Nîmes, Toulon). His painting is characterized by a strong realism and a sense of detail in nature, at the same time as classical compositions with a light always very bright which must come from his years of training in Paris with the academic painter from Toulon Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin. We think we recognize here a landscape of the surroundings of Toulon that Courdouan often painted (Toulon harbor, Cap Brun, the Batterie Basse, the Mourillon cornice, Fort Saint-Louis...). And our painting is very close in style to several paintings by Vincent Courdouan (The Valley of El Biar (Toulon Museum of Fine Arts), Saint Tropez in the Var (Auckland Art Gallery), View of the Coast and View of the Surroundings of Toulon (Art Market)).