Carl Josef Kuwasseg (1802 Trieste - 1877) Seascape With Sailing Ships Off The Coast

The seascape with sailing ships off the coast was executed in 1857 by the eminent Franco-Austrian marine and landscape painter Carl (Karl) Josef Kuwasseg (1802 Triest - 1877).

(Taken from Wikipedia) Karl Joseph Kuwasseg (1802, Trieste - 1877) was a 19th century Austrian marine painter, who moved to Paris in 1830 and took French citizenship in 1870. Karl Joseph Kuwasseg was born in Trieste. He moved to Vienna where he worked in watercolour. He accompanied the Count of Schomburg on his travels through Europe and America. He produced several landscapes there. His brothers Joseph (b. 1799) and Anton became painters and lithographers, as did his son Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg. Kuwasseg's works can be found in various French museums and in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Literature: Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins - Painters - 1887 Page 417; Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenen Künstler" by Thieme / Becker. Leipzig, 1999
Inscription: signed and dated 1857.
Technique: each: oil on canvas, luxuriously original period gilt frames.
Dimensions: without frame 46 x 33 cm; framed 71 x 60 cm.
Condition: in perfect condition.