"Eugène Feyen (1815 - 1908) Still Life With A Bouquet Of Flowers | Lorrain"
Jacques Eugène FEYEN (Bey-sur-Seille, 1815 - Paris 1908)Still life with bouquet of flowers, roses, freesias, carnations..
Oil on panel
Signed lower right, dated 1907*
55 x 40 cm | 60 x 45 cm with the frame
Very good condition, some wear (old frame mark on the right side). Reframing.
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Painter and engraver, born in Bey-sur-Seille in Lorraine in 1815, he was the son of a tax collector and older brother of the painter Augustin Feyen-Perrin (whom he introduced to painting). He left for Paris at the age of 19 and enrolled in the studio of Léon Coigniet, then of Paul Delaroche at the Beaux-Arts, where he received the congratulations of Horace Vernet. But health problems and lack of money made him return to Nancy in 1842 where he opened a drawing class then a photography studio with his brother at 8 place d'Alliance until 1853. He returned to Paris, photographer and painter (quai des Augustins, then rue Basse du Rempart, finally rue de la Paix in the last years). Present at the Salon from 1841 until 1882, he was awarded a medal in 1866 and 1880. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1881. In 1895, he returned to the Salon with three oils "The Sailor", "Heroism" and "Fish Merchant".
He settled in Cancale in the summer, and spent several months a year there for thirty years painting views of Cancale, the oyster harvest and the bay of Mont Saint-Michel. He also visited Dinard, Roscoff, Saint-Malo. He made many sketches and preparatory studies there to be able to compose his paintings in his Parisian studio. His paintings, both realistic and impressionist, are constantly appreciated in France and abroad.
It was his copy of "The Mona Lisa" that was to replace this painting after it was stolen in 1913 from the Louvre Museum.
A prolific painter, Eugène Feyen was able to work until his extreme old age, which was interrupted by death on July 24, 1908. He lies in the same grave as his brother at the Montmartre Cemetery (18th division).
* A great painter of genre, of maritime scenes, his still lifes are rare, this one is dated from the last year of the painter's life - 1907. A still life with flowers is also kept at the Musée Lorrain in Nancy; other works at the museums of Quimper, Rennes, Geneva..
(Various sources, including Laurence Jeandidier "En passant par la Bretagne - Artistes voyageurs lorrains en Bretagne", exhibition catalog musée départemental breton- Quimper, 1999.)
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