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 specializing in marine subjects. He became Official Painter of the Navy in 1882. He was a student of Claudius Jacquand. Gallard-Lepinay was more of a mariner than a landscaper, and he was also appointed painter of the navy. He exhibited at the Salon from 1864 where he sent, La grande côte, près de Royan au matin et soleil couchant sur l'adriatique, because not only did he work a lot in the ports of Normandy and the west (La Rochelle) but also in Venice where he appreciated the light on the lagoon. He created compositions evoking historical naval battles, On commission from the State, he painted "Combat du 13Prairial, An II". Exhibited at the Salon of 1880, this painting represents "Le Vengeur", whose crew refused to surrender to the English and which sank, on June 1, 1794, to the cry of "Long live the Republic" (painting preserved at the Quimper museum). or current events Jules Grevy, Léon Say and Gambetta visiting the squadron in Cherbourg (Cherbourg Museum). His paintings remain good testimonies of a reasoned talent attentive to the changing lighting of the sea or the ocean. Our painting translates this atmosphere well. -Gérard Schurr, The Little Masters of Painting 1820-1920, Paris, Les Éditions de l'amateur, 1982, p. 35. -"At Night, the Two-Masted Ship of Gallard-Lepinay", Sud-Ouest, March 29, 2011. -Gérard Aubisse, The Painters of Charentes, Poitou and Vendée: 19th-20th Centuries: Dictionary and Biographical Notices, 2001, p543