19th century painting - Barbizon School - Cows at the pond - Oil On Canvas signed (JAPY Louis Aimé)

Biography

JAPY Louis Aimé (1840 / 1916)
Louis Aimé Japy, born October 19, 1839 in the Berne district, commune of Allezcourt (Doubs) and died January 8, 1916 in Paris, is a French painter of the Barbizon School.

Son of Louis Japy and Joséphine Louise Sandherr, and not wishing to continue in the family industry, Louis Aimé Japy devotes himself entirely to his passion, landscape painting. He was a student of Louis Français, Camille Corot and Paul Lecomte. We owe him a series of landscapes of Franche-Comté, but also of the regions of Brittany, Picardy and Oise. Corot considers him one of his best students.

He began at the Salon in 1864 and exhibited there until the start of the First World War. He obtained a medal at the Salon of 1870, a second class medal at the Salon of 1873 and became a member of the Salon of French Artists in 1883. Japy exhibited The Return of the Flock at the Salon of 1885. He made a trip to Italy, from which he brought back some paintings.
Furthermore, his work was rewarded with the silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, then that of 1900.

Louis Aimé Japy received the insignia of knight of the Legion of Honor in 1906.

Married to Sophie Louise Emma Däschner, he died on January 8, 1916 at his home at 31 boulevard Berthier in Paris 17th.

Museums:

Amsterdam, Budapest, Langres, Limoux, Manchester, Morlaix, Paris (Musée d'Orsay) Pau, Roanne, Saint-Etienne, Washington.
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