A panoramic view of the beach at Dieppe at sunset painted in 1872 by the marine painter Jean Marie Auguste Jugelet. A luminous work of great finesse.
Oil on panel
Signed lower right
Dimensions: 18 x 55 cmWith frame: 28 x 65 cm
Inscription on the back locating the work: “Dieppe Sunset on Sunday June 23, 1872- (good weather)”.
Auguste Jugelet “Painter of marines at the cold baths of Dieppe”.
Auguste Jugelet is one of the best students of Théodore Gudin, he proclaims himself “Painter of marines at the cold baths of Dieppe”.
A panoramic format for this beach scene of great finesse.
The use of the panoramic format, which widens our angle of view, allows us to enter the painting and admire the landscape.
Biography
Jean Marie Auguste Jugelet, born in Brest and died in Rouen, is a French painter.
Son of a naval commissioner, he was a student of Théodore Gudin, and like him became a marine painter.
He made his debut at the Salon of 1831 and exhibited there until 1870.
The Breton coast often inspired him, as did Normandy. He was commissioned to reproduce views of the main French ports, and made frequent trips to state buildings.
He also painted historical seascapes.
He was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor on April 28, 1847.
A cellist, he was a member of the Rouen Philharmonic Society at the end of his life.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Reims holds several of his seascapes of Brittany and Normandy.
Bibliography
• Gérald Schurr “The Little Masters of Painting” Gérald Schurr
• Dictionary of French landscape painters in the 19th century. Lydia Harembourg.
• The painters of Etretat, Lundy Collection, 100 paintings from the 19th century,
• Reims, Museum of Fine Arts, 1997. B. Delarue, C. Chaine, P. Tckowicz,
• Pierre Larousse, Great universal dictionary of the 19th century.
• S.-A. Nonus, History of the department of Finistère, with the biography of the remarkable people who came from there, 1890.
Museums
Brest, Dieppe, Honfleur, Le Puy, Reims, Rochefort, Saint Omer, Versailles, Chantilly (Condé Museum). .