Hippolyte Camille Delpy (1842-1910) Picking Up Oysters On The Beach In The Moonlight

Hippolyte Camille DELPY (1842-1910)
Picking up oysters on the beach in the moonlight
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘75’ lower left
On its original canvas
37 x 60 cm
Very fine old wooden and stucco frame 85 x 62 cm
There is a painting by Hippolyte Camille Delpy in a private collection with the same subject but painted during the day entitled ‘Picking up oysters on the beach at Cancale’

Hippolyte Camille Delpy was born in Joigny in 1842. He was a pupil of Charles François Daubigny, a family friend, who took young Camille with him on his walks. In Paris, Daubigny introduced his young pupil to Corot, and in 1869 he exhibited his first works at the Salon. Twenty-five years at the Salon, numerous landscapes painted all over the world,
Normandy, Brittany, the Pyrenees, Holland, not to mention more than three hundred riversides and America's panoramas.
riverbanks and panoramas. In 1876, he married Louise-Berthe Cyboulle, herself the daughter of a painter. That same year, he organised the sale of his paintings in Paris, at the Hôtel Drouot. 45 of them found buyers, which encouraged him to his chosen path. He was part of a generation of painters who divided their lives between the countryside between the countryside, a source of inspiration, and the slopes of Montmartre. In the 1880s, Delpy lived in Place Pigalle. He also frequented the ‘villa des arts’, a residence-workshop in rue Hégésippe Moreau (Paris Eugène Carrière, Paul Cézanne and Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, the ‘Douanier Rousseau’, and many other painters. It was here, moreover, that where he died in 1910.
Contemporary of the Impressionists, Delpy blended the techniques he had learnt from Daubigny with a brighter palette and a more vigorous touch brushstroke, characteristic of the generation painters of the Barbizon school.