Description
PIERRE EMMANUEL EUGENE DAMOYE ( 1847 – 1916 )
A very impressive and very large signed oil by Eugene Damoye depicting a Barbizon river landscape with figure and trees by a cottage on the river. The work is signed lower right and unlined on its original canvas. The artist is highly sought after for exactly these subjects and his work sells very very well at auction for up to £33,000 for a single oil and similar size works to this at £8,000 to £10,000.
Signature: Signed lower right
Oil on original canvas
Size: c. 22 x 36 inches unframed / 28 x 42 framed
Condition: Very good for age – unlined – minor mark to centre left
Pierre Emmanuel Eugène Damoye studied under Corot, Daubigny and Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was one of the best artists to continue the tradition of his teachers, Corot and Daubigny.
His main works were: Winter (1875); Meadows of Mortfontaine (1876); Pastures of Cucq (1878); Mill of Merlimont (1879) which received a third-place medal; Carrefour de l’Épine (1880); Mill of Gouillandeur (1881); and Plain of Gennevilliers (1884) which received a second-place medal.
Damoye began exhibiting landscapes in 1875. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1893. A member of the jury and hors Concours at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890 and served on its committee.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Antwerp: Marshland; Environs of Amiens
Arras
Dunkirk
Helsinki
Hyères: Autumn; Landscape of the Touraine; Pond
Montreal: St-Denis, near Paris
Paris (MAM)
Périgueux: The Seine at Épinay
Auction Records
Realised Price: Estimated Price: €4,000 – €6,000
Description: Pierre Emmanuel DAMOYE (1847-1916)
PAYSAGE À L’ÉTANG
1890
Huile sur toile
Signé et daté en bas à gauche
125 x 201 cm
New York, 6 May 1987: Village and its Surroundings (1881, oil on panel, 12¾ × 23½ ins/32.5 × 60 cm) USD 6,200
Paris, 28 March 1988: Flooding (1906, oil on canvas, 26½ × 39¼ ins/67 × 100 cm) FRF 24,000
Paris, 7 June 1988: Landscape with a Pond (1892, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 26,000
London, 21 Oct 1988: Fruit Trees by the Sea (1904, oil on canvas, 20 × 29 ins/50.7 × 73.5 cm) GBP 2,640
Paris, 16 Dec 1988: River-bank (1903, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 21,000
Cologne, 15 June 1989: River Landscape in France (1891, oil on canvas, 28¾ × 19¾ ins/73 × 50 cm) DEM 8,000
Monaco, 3 Dec 1989: Washerwomen near a Pond (1879, oil on panel, 9 × 13¾ ins/22 × 35 cm) FRF 22,200
Paris, 18 Dec 1989: Washerwomen (oil on canvas, 26½ × 48 ins/67 × 121 cm) FRF 50,000
New York, 17 Jan 1990: Coastal Landscape (oil on canvas, 17½ × 32½ ins/44.6 × 82.7 cm) USD 6,050
Paris, 3 April 1990: Landscape with a Pond (1892, oil on canvas, 17¼ × 32¾ ins/44 × 83 cm) FRF 31,000
Paris, 14 June 1993: River-bank in Winter (1903, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 27,000
London, 27 Oct 1993: Meadow near the Sea (1897, oil on canvas, 25½ × 43 ins/65 × 109 cm) GBP 1,955
Paris, 23 March 1994: Marshland by the Sea (1882, oil on panel, 13 × 24½ ins/33 × 62 cm) FRF 23,000
Paris, 8 Dec 1995: Cows in a Meadow (1897, oil on panel, 13 × 23½ ins/33 × 60 cm) FRF 22,000
Paris, 26 Nov 1996: Cows in a Meadow (1897, oil on panel, 13 × 23½ ins/33 × 60 cm) FRF 14,600
London, 13 March 1997: Open Country (oil on canvas, 26 × 47 ins/66.2 × 119.6 cm) GBP 4,830
New York, 23 May 1997: Corn in Brittany (1890, oil on canvas, 43¼ × 78¾ ins/109.9 × 200 cm) USD 43,125
Paris, 12 Dec 1997: Landscape by the Sea (oil on canvas, 17¾ × 33½ ins/45 × 85 cm) FRF 23,000
New York, 10 Feb 1998: Winter’s Day (oil on canvas, 15 × 24 ins/38 × 61 cm) USD 3,680
New York, 18 March 1998: On the Banks of a River (1904, oil on canvas, 26 × 43½ ins/66 × 110.5 cm) USD 11,500