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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on panel
Signed: Signed lower right
Dated: c. 1910
Size: 9.00" x 13.00" (22.9cm x 33.0cm)
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
c. 1910
Oil on board
£6,450.00
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Port d’Honfleur
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
c. 1900
Oil on canvas
£5,650.00
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Sunrise – Les-Sables-d’Olonne
by Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez
c. 1880
Oil on panel
£4,650.00
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Bateaux sur la mer – le soir
by Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens
1960
Oil on canvas
£7,950.00
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Romeo de Ravenne
by Camille Hilaire
c. 1890
Oil on panel
£3,450.00
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Windmills on the Normandy coast
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£7,950.00
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Figures on the beach – Yport
by Andre Devambez
1980
Oil on canvas
£4,950.00
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Vieux palais sur la canal – Venice
by Camille Hilaire
1907
Oil on canvas
£43,000.00
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Bord De Mer
by Willy Schlobach
c. 1920
Oil on canvas
£5,250.00
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Voilliers sur la cote
by Georges D'Espagnat
c. 1880
Oil on panel
£12,950.00
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Visite de l’escadre a Toulon
by Felix Francois Georges Philbert Ziem
c. 1920
Oil on board
£1,750.00
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Moored Boats – Martigues
by Georges Lapchine
Pierre Georges Jeanniot was taught by his father Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot, who for a long time was director of the art college in Dijon. He embarked on a military career, but exhibited watercolours as early as 1872 at the Paris Salon. In 1873, he exhibited his first oil painting there, Le Vernan at Nass-sous-Ste-Anne, and continued to show work there regularly. In 1881, having reached the rank of captain, he left the army in order to work full time as an artist. He settled in Paris, where he won an honourable mention in the Salon of 1882, a third-class medal in 1884 and a silver in 1889 and 1900. His was an assured and independent mind, and so he joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts as soon as it was set up in 1890. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.
The earliest works he sent in consisted mainly of scenes of military life. Later he was best known for his scenes of fashionable women in Paris at the time of the Belle Époque and on the beaches of the then very new seaside resorts, and for his views of race-meetings, all of these providing valuable sociological evidence. He also illustrated many literary works, among them Maupassant's Contes choisis (1886), Germinie Lacerteux (1886), Goncourt's La fille Élisa (1895), and Daudet's Tartarin de Tarascon (1887). He collaborated on the illustration of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables in 1887 and also illustrated Zola's La Débâcle and The Rat-Race (La Curée) of 1893-1894, Octave Mirbeau's Calvary (Le Calvaire) of 1901, Molière's Le Misanthrope in 1907, Balzac's The Peasants (Les Paysans) in 1911, Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos in 1917, as well as Voltaire's Candide and the Voyage à St-Cloud and other works. He was one of those who launched Modern Life (La Vie Moderne), and later he directed the Journal amusant. His drawing is vigorous and expressive, and his great strength lay in his brilliant depictions of the comedy of contemporary life.