Charles Kuwasseg, attr., Marinebild

Charles Kuwasseg, attr., Marinebild
Charles Kuwasseg, attr., Marine painting
moving sea with boats in front of a city backdrop behind fortifications, low impasto painting, in the present painting the influence of Kuwasseg's teacher, Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager, is still strongly visible, in which the artist reproduced motifs of the coasts of France, Belgium and Great Britain, oil on wood panel, c. 1880, unsigned, old French dealer's label on the reverse and typographical encyclopaedia extract for "Kuwasseg (Kuvasseg)". Dealer's label and typographic encyclopaedia excerpt to "Kuwasseg (Kuvasseg), Charles Euphrasie painter * 29.9.1833 Darveil ...", minor craquelure, somewhat restored, original frame, folding dimensions approx. 21.5 x 41 cm. Artist's info: actually Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg, also Kuvasseg, French painter (1833 or 1838 Draveil Seine-et-Oise/Essonne until 1904 Paris), son and pupil of the Austrian painter Karl Joseph Kuwasseg (1802-1877), several years of service in the French navy and merchant navy. In 1883 he returned to France and studied under Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager and Eugène Isabey, influenced by the school of Barbizon, afterwards he worked as a painting and drawing teacher, between 1855-1904 he worked at the Paris Salon, he collaborated with Poilpot on several naval panoramas, father of the painter Jeanne Kuwasseg (born in Asnières), Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon, Bénézit and Wikipedia.