Paintings

DAUBIGNY Karl ( 1846 / 1886 )
The fisherman of the river .
Oil on panel signe lower left and contresigned and dated 1876 on the back .
7,1 / 11,6 in
Museums : Paris ( Musée d'Orsay ) , Aix en Provence , Amiens , Bayonne , Brest , Evreux , Honfleur , Nancy ; Berlin , La Haye .
Karl Pierre Daubigny was a pupil of his father, the eminent Barbizon painter, Charles François Daubigny. His landscapes were strongly influenced by his father's and were mainly views of Normandy and the forest of Fountainebleau. His first exhibition at the Paris Salon was in 1863. He exhibited there regularly and won medals in 1868 and 1874, both in Paris and in Philadelphia. Karl Pierre Daubigny died prematurely in 1886 at the age of forty at the height of his career . His prolific contribution to the second generation of Barbizon painters is evident in his ability to convey, through his painting, his devotion to and love of nature.
In 2000 an exhibition featuring works of father and son was organized at the Museum Daubigny in Auvers-sur-Oise. Paintings by Karl Daubigny are in many museum collections including those in Aix, Amiens, Bayonne, Berlin, Honfleur, the Rijksmuseum Mesdag in The Hague, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris .

BLANCHARD Antoine ( 1910 / 1988 )
Night walk around the triumphal arch at Paris .
Oil on canvas signed lower left and contresigned on the back .
13 / 18,1 in .
Original frame .
Literature : Bénézit .

VAUTHIER Pierre ( 1845 / 1916 )
Paris Notre Dame and the boats on The Seine .
Watercolor signed lower right .
24,4 / 19,2 in
Original frame
Musees : Anvers , Bourges , Chambéry , Draguignan , Moulin , Paris : Petit Palais , Musée Carnavalet , Salon des Sciences à L'Hôtel de Ville de Paris .
Litterature : Bénézit , Dictionnaire des petits maîtres de la peinture par Gérald Schurr et Pierre Cabanne , Les peintres paysagistes Français au 19ème siècle par Lydia Harambourg , Dictionnaire des peintres de Montmartre aux 19ème et 20ème siècles par André Roussard , " Paris à la belle époque au temps de Marcel Proust " par Marc Gaillard .

CHAIGNEAU Paul ( XIX / XX )
The return of the shepherd and its herd the evening in the plain of Chailly .
Oil on canvas signed lower right .
18,1 / 21,6 in .
Original frame .
Chaigneau was one of the central figures in the second generation of Barbizon painters, Chaigneau combined rural subject matter inspired by his informal mentors Millet and Charles Jacque with the polished skills acquired in many years of academic training.
Chaigneau's ability at figure drawing and pictorial composition gave his Barbizon and Fontainebleau scenes a distinctive originality and recognizability.  And his long association with the village of Barbizon (where he maintained a home for 50 years), as well as his efforts to make Barbizon art better known internationally  in 1882, with Charles Jacque, Chaigneau founded the "Societe des artistes animaliers" distinguished Chaigneau as the principal representative of Barbizon art during the last quarter of the nineteenth-century.
Chaigneau was born on March 6, 1830 in the shipping center of Bordeaux, where he studied drawing under the successful academic painter Jean-Paul Alaux.  In 1847, he moved to Paris to continue
studies with an uncle who was a marine painter; and in 1848 he submitted a landscape to the unjuried Salon (the Revolution of 1848 had suspended the normal Salon restrictions).  In 1849, encouraged by
Jacques Brascassat, a family friend and successful animal painter, Chaigneau entered the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts.  He studied in the studio of Picot, one of the most traditional teachers at the
Ecole, and in the studios of Jules Coignet and Brascassat, both more forward-looking and skilled as landscapists.
Chaigneau seems to have focused on a career in landscape painting from the beginning, and he entered the quadrennial competitions for the Prix de Rome in Historical Landscape almost immediately after his acceptance at the Ecole — finishing a noteworthy 6th in 1849 and receiving Honorable Mention (runner-up or second place) in 1854.  During these years, alongside his studies in the restrained, classical landscape style favored by the Coignet and others at the Ecole, Chaigneau also honed his skills as a realistic landscape artist, traveling throughout France to study a wide variety
of terrain — the Rhone valley around Lyon, the Normandy coast, the marshes of the southern Landes region, and the mountains of the Auvergne.  At the Exposition Universelle of 1855 he exhibited a
landscape in the tradition of Theodore Rousseau, then the most highly acclaimed member of the Realist school of French landscape, entitled Marais dans les Landes.

GUERY ARMAND ( 1850 / 1912 )
Barge in the canal .
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1891 lower right
13 / 18,2 in
Original frame
Musées : Chateau-Thierry , Nice , Reims .
Armand GUERY
Born in 1850 in Reims (Marne)
Death in 1912 in Gueux (Marne)
Painter of scenes of kind, animated landscapes, landscapes of water - Pastelliste -
Pupil of Rigon, Armand GUERY painted mainly landscapes which stage views of the champenoise campaign and the Ile-de-France - he exposed to the Show of the French Artists in Paris. Armand GUERY obtains a medal of the third class in 1891, and a second-class medal  in 1894. Armand GUERY also obtains an honourable mention in 1900 in the United States.