Marine Romantic Period Att. Auguste Jugelet (1805/1874)

Oil on canvas French school 79/51 unframed 90/63 with frame Attributed to Jean Marie Auguste Jugelet Attributed to Jean Marie Auguste Jugelet, (Brest, August 25, 1805 - Rouen, October 22, 1874) is a French painter. Son of a commissioner of the navy, pupil of Théodore Gudin, like him he became a marine painter, and debuted at the Salon of 1831. Since then, he was responsible for reproducing the views of the main French ports, and made frequent trips on state buildings. He was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor on April 28, 1847. Our picture is painted with exceptional virtuosity, the painter painted in part with glazes and used the background of the preparation to give transparency to the 'water. The contrast of colors brings a disturbing atmosphere worthy of this pictorial movement which is the Current Romanticism which appeared in the 18th century in Germany. Romanticism, breaking away from classical art, quickly gained the rest of Europe. The romantic movement will encourage the emergence of a more subjective, freer form of expression, where the partitioning between pictorial genres becomes less rigid. The sea is raging in these seascapes, the tension and the movement always present, moreover the scenes of shipwreck or storm will be dear to romantic painters.