Eugene Feyen "the Threshing" Brittany

Jacques Eugène Feyen, born November 13, 1815 in Bey-sur-Seille (Meurthe) and died July 24, 1908 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, is a French photographer and painter. Son of a tax collector and older brother of the painter Augustin Feyen-Perrin, Eugène entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Paul Delaroche. After practicing photography with his brother, he returned to painting. He exhibited at the Salon from 1841 to 1882, where he won medals in 1866 and 1880. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1881. Eugène Feyen settled in Cancale in the summer and spent several months a year painting views of the oyster harvest and the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. His naturalist paintings are appreciated in France and abroad. His copy of the Mona Lisa temporarily replaced the work stolen in 1913 from the Louvre Museum in Paris. He lies in the same tomb as his brother in Paris at the Montmartre cemetery (18th division). He is the author of the sculpted medallion representing his profile adorning their tombstone. Public collections Quimper, Breton Departmental Museum: drawings. Rennes, Museum of Fine Arts: Le Marin ou Héroïsme ou Les Naufragés, Salon of 1895.