Marius Reynaud (1860-1935) Cargo Ship At The Quay

In the tradition of the great painters of the navy, Marius Reynaud presents here a superb "cargo ship at the quay", certainly in the port of Algiers where the artist lived and worked for a long time.
The work is offered in a black and gold empire frame which measures 69 cm by 51 cm and 55 cm by 38 cm without the frame.
In good condition, the work is signed lower right.

Born in Marseille in 1860, REYNAUD was one of the most gifted students of the School of Fine Arts. In 1878, designated as one of the best to the great military painter DETAILLE, the young man was enlisted to participate in the realization of the large panorama of the "Siege of BELFORT". The task was so considerable that six painters out of the ten chosen very quickly gave up. REYNAUD persisted while showing great enthusiasm and remarkable ability. His portrait appears in this so important work; the artists having successively used it as models.
DETAILLE insisted on attaching REYNAUD to Paris, but the mists of the north inspired the emerging artist with salutary dread.
Rewarded in 1879 at the Marseille Exhibition, he came to do his military service in Algeria two years later and settled there.

Become in a very Algerian record time, as much by the sympathies conquered as by his translations of the beauties of the coast, REYNAUD revealed himself as a great painter of the port of Algiers and particularly of the Admiralty whom he knew inside out. In a few years and a few very successful exhibitions, he placed himself at the level of the great masters such as Maxime NOIRE and Eugène DESHAYES.
To his academic culture, his impeccable science of drawing and his fine and delicate artistic sense, REYNAUD added a great power of work. A distinguished colorist, it was as a marine painter that he gave the full measure of his talent. As a teacher, this man of perfect conscience had Gilbert GALLAND as his most brilliant pupil; as for his bi-weekly lessons, given to the prince of exiled ANNAM: HAM-N'GHI (the marvelous child), they made him much more than an amateur.
REYNAUD was the author of paintings to decorate the DEY pavilion in Algiers and the Chamber of Commerce. One of his canvases from the 1889 Salon, “Former Pirate Port of Algiers”, was purchased by the General Government. Another adorned the Hall of Honor of the Val de Grâce in Paris.
Marius REYNAUD died in Algiers on December 11, 1935.