"Jean-charles-joseph RÉMOND (1795- 1875)- Animated landscape, View Of Cagnes-sur-Mer, Circa 1840."
Oil on canvas signed at the bottom left located on the back.
Inscription on the back: "Cagnes sur la ... near Nice” and old exhibition number 170.
Dimensions: 27 x 40.5 cm
With frame: 51 x 64 cm
Jean C.J. Rémond gives us here a very nice panorama on the Haut-de-Cagnes. On its promontory, the old medieval town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, bathed in a pretty Mediterranean light, takes shape, sublimated by the artist. Through pines with finely drawn foliage, on the right, we can see the beach and the sea.
In contrast to historical or mythological landscapes, we are here in the representation of a scene from everyday life.
In the foreground, a shepherdess on her donkey, accompanied by her sheep and a cow, converses with a peasant. We can see in the distance, on the way out of the city, other characters accompanied by their animals.
This romantic landscape with its finesse of drawing and details is representative of the pictorial qualities and the work of the artist: a composition that develops from a stepped perspective, a skilful distribution of light, more blurred backgrounds on which the foliage stands out, the presence of rocks, water and the animation of characters conversing.
Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond is the son of a printer who founded in 1793 in Paris a printing house specialized in engravings. He was a student of Jean-Baptiste Régnault at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture from 1809, and of Jean-Victor Bertin at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1814. He began at the Salon of 1814 with two historical landscapes.
He is one of those who apply with the most fidelity the rules of the composed landscape.
He won the Grand Prix of Rome for the historical landscape in 1821, unanimously for The Abduction of Proserpine by Pluto.
Returning from Rome, he opened a workshop at the end of 1826. Rémond devoted himself to the historical landscape and stopped exhibiting after 1848. On his return from Italy, he published a collection of views of this country. Adept of plein-air painting, he traveled in Italy to Naples and Sicily, Switzerland before returning to France.
Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond is elevated to the rank of officer of the Legion of Honor.
Exhibition:
•From June 19 to October 4, 2010: A century of landscapes, the choice of an amateur, Lyon, museum of fine arts
•From November 13 to November 22, 2013: Views on nature, Paris, place Vendôme, Marty de Cambiaire Fine Art Gallery
Bibliography:
*Larousse Encyclopedia of the nineteenth century in eight volumes.
*Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of painters, sculptors, engravers, draftsmen, Gründ, 1999.
*Suzanne Gutwirth, "Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond (1795-1875) first grand prix of Rome of the historical landscape", in Bulletin of the French Art History Society, 1981, publ. 1983, No. 50, p. 203.
*Laurie Marty from Cambiaire, with Angélique Franck-Niclot, trad. Jane MacAvock, Views on Nature, a private collection, [exhibition catalog], Fine Art Gallery, 2013.
Museum:
• In the United States
    .Los Angeles, Getty Center 
                      Mountainous landscape with a road to Naples, 1821-1825
    .New York Metropolitan Museum of Art :
                      View of Ischia from the sea, 1842
                      Entrance to the Pausilippe cave, between 1822 and 1842
                      View of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine.
                     View of the Basilica of Constantine from the Palatine Hill, Rome,
• In France
   . Paris, Louvre Museum: Carloman injured in the Yvelines forest.
   
     .Dijon, museum of fine arts of Dijon :
                                        The Wolf and the lamb, oil on canvas,
                                       The Oak and the reed, oil on canvas,
   
   . Montpellier, Fabre Museum: The Death of Abel. Historical landscape, 1838
    
    .Nantes Museum of Arts: Ulysses and Nausicaa, 1830, oil on canvas,
     
    .Toulon, Toulon Art Museum: Landscape inspired by the Royat site
    
   .Toulouse, Augustinian Museum: Philoctetes injured on the island of Lemnos,
   .Versailles, Museum of the History of France :
                 Capture of Tarragona in Catalonia by General-in-chief Suchet
                 Siege of Lerida by General Suchet, 1836
                 General Suchet receives the capitulation of the city of Tortosa
•In the United Kingdom
   .Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum: Italian landscape with a view of a port