Antoine Dutac - Storm Off The Coast (a Pair)

Antoine DUTAC
Epinal, 1786 – Epinal, 1857
Storms off the Coast (a pair)
Oils on wood panel
18.5 x 28 cm (23 x 32 cm with frame)
Signed on the back “ Dutac”
Beautiful 19th-century carved and gilded wooden frame

Two very beautiful seascapes with rocks that remind us that Antoine Dutac is rightly mentioned in the book *Les Vosgiens célèbres* by the historian and former curator of the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Albert Ronsin (*Les Vosgiens célèbres*, *Illustrated Biographical Dictionary*, Vagney, Editions Gérard Louis, 1990).
Antoine DUTAC was a landscape painter from Épinal. He exhibited between 1817 and 1850 at the Paris Salon (in 1817, *La cascade de Tendon, dans les Vosges*; in 1819, *La cascade de Richembach, au canton de Berne*; The Oberhasli Valley; three other landscapes; in 1822, The Goat Bridge in the Lauterbrunn Valley, Canton of Bern; A Waterfall on the Banks of the Moselle; Several studies; in 1824, *The Hermit of St. Michel*, near Épinal: *View of Schirmeck* (Vosges); *Landscape, Frost Effect*...; in 1827, *A Ruined Tower in Foggy Weather*). And in 1826, at the Lebrun Gallery, a View from the Heights of Gérard-Mer (Vosges), and a View of a low tide near Honfleur, as well as in 1827, A Frost Effect and A View of the Vosges. Awarded a medal in 1817 at the Paris Salon.