Emile Dardoize View Of A Village And Its River, 19th Century

Oil on panel signed lower right Emile Dardoize. 27X35 cm Wooden frame and gilded stucco, 41x48 cm. Artist listed in Les Petits Maîtres de la Peinture Valeur de demain Volume 1, in the Benezit, dictionary of painters, sculptors, draftsmen and engravers. Louis Émile Dardoize, born March 10, 1826 in Paris and died October 17, 1901 in the same city, is a self-taught French painter and lithographer. In a letter to his father, a few weeks before his death, he wrote: “Last year, the love of drawing had already taken hold of me. […] This year it’s even worse, this passion follows me everywhere, everywhere I have to draw. […] I have the continual feeling that the profession of draftsman will suit me very well. […] Leave me, I beg you, let me follow the path that naturally opens up beneath my feet." Self-taught, he opened a lithography workshop. He exhibited at the Salon between 1845 and 1901, drawing inspiration in particular from Harpignies, Pelouze and Louis Français. A prolific artist, he painted many rural landscapes during his many travels throughout France and its regions. He won prizes at the Salon of 1882 and at the Universal Exhibitions in 1889 and 1900 in Paris and in 1893 in Chicago.