Portrait Of The Boat

"La paix" represented under sail, sports at the head of mast various pavilions. The painter represented on the deck the crewmen ready for the maneuver. The ship leaves the port, accompanied by a pilot boat. This type of vessel is representative of the cabotage boats that frequented the port of Saint Malo in the 19th century. The portraits of ships are a prominent subject of the Flemish school of marine paintings under glass of the nineteenth century. This technique requires the artist to work methodically decomposing: not only must he paint the bow to the left to see it to the right, but the successive phases of realization are the reverse of those of a traditional work, the details superposition being represented first. Alexandre Lamartinière rubs shoulders with some artists of this school in Ostend -Wieden, Meseure, perhaps Nefors- and learns their techniques. Settled in the north of France from 1825, it then bears witness to the activity of the ports of Dunkirk and Saint Malo, painting in turn the glass of the ships calling and ex-votos. A peculiarity of this painter is to cause a relief effect by adding to the painted glass a watercolor background in the bottom of the frame. Oil on glass Date: June 1848 Dimensions with frame: 70 x 57 cm