Very Large Framed Oil On Wood: "mixed Vessel In The Storm Reducing Its Sails" 19th

Spectacular painting from the middle of the 19th century, this large seascape, oil on wood in its monumental gilded and stuké wooden frame with a wide cornice. "Mixed vessel in the storm reducing its sails" signed Gérard around 1840/50. An imposing and finely crafted work depicts this three-masted merchant ship of the Maritime Mixte company, fighting against the swell, all the sailors on deck busy reducing the sails, engine pushed to full speed and in a sky cleared by the wind. The sea seems hostile and the ship is fighting against the elements; this beautiful and proud portrait of a boat is representative of the beautiful seascapes painted with application between 1840 and 1860; A mastered and realistic work of large dimensions of a painting applied on a perfect thick prepared mahogany panel, smoothed and teeming with details, a painting for a major decoration due to its size and strong decorative power, inspired by the "Cabinet of Amateur and Curiosity". An unusual piece that this large and beautiful well-framed marine from the middle of the 19th century, a period of all challenges....