Impressionist Seascape Painting Of The South Of France, Signed émilie Desjeux (1861-1957)

Oil on wood, 27 cm x 22 cm, sold with its beautiful frame, 43 cm x 38 cm, signed lower right Emilie Desjeux. Sold with invoice/certificate. Good condition. A Burgundian artist born in Joigny in 1861, a student of Bouguereau, and featured in the Benezit dictionary and the Saint Germain Museum in Auxerre. Émilie Desjeux exhibited her canvases Mother Thérèse and Forced Labor, and two paintings on porcelain, Chrysanthemums and Charity, at the Tunisian Salon of 1896. In 1899, she sent her painting The Doctor of the Poor to the exhibition of this association and, the following year, exhibited her Self-Portrait at the 1900 Universal Exposition where she received an honorable mention. Émilie Desjeux exhibited watercolors at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1907. She regularly spent her summers in Bussy, where she had a large library and where she was buried after her death on April 23, 1957. Two of her paintings, The Knife Grinder and The Banquet for the Inauguration of the Covered Market in Auxerre, are held in the Saint-Germain Museum in Auxerre. Émilie Desjeux was made an Officer of the Order of Academic Palms in 1890. She died on April 23, 1957, at her home, 77 rue des Martyrs in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, and is buried in Bussy-en-Othe.