French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)
French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)

Painting Fortuney Louis

Regular price €750

Fortuney Louis, Oil on panel representing a scene of fishermen and boat from the South of France.
It is signed Fortuney Louis.
It is painted on cardboard.
Frame: medium condition, small chip.

Size of the frame: 14 15/16" (38 cm) x 13 3/8" (34 cm)
Panel size: 10 7/16" (26.5 cm) x 8 11/16" (22 cm)


Please take a close look at the photos, they are an integral part of the description.

Fortuney Louis: Louis Ernest Fortuné Andrieux is a French painter, fresco artist, engraver, lithographer and pastelist born in 1875. For reasons of homonymy with Louis Andrieux, he takes the pseudonym Fortuney.

He is a friend of Rodin and paints with him in the south of France, in Cagnes-sur-mer .

Fortuney is inspired by the sea, the Breton lights and those of the Mediterranean. He obtains the commission of the State for important paintings intended to decorate the Ministry of the Navy, but never, in spite of the rumour, was official painter of the Navy (cf the collection of the nominations of the POM).

Fortuney painted many genre scenes depicting women in the streets of Pars, as well as marines. He is an expert in the use of pastel, very fashionable in the Belle Epoque, and excels at rendering the velvety softness of fabrics and skin tones.

Next to a very Parisian inspiration, he deploys in his marines and in his port scenes sketched on the spot an incisive vigor, which contrasts with the virtusity of his genre scenes.

Fortuney died in 1951.
French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)
French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)
French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)
French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)
French Antique Painting - Oil on Panel - Fortuney Louis (1875-1951)