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was born in Paris in 1798 and died there in 1860. He was a noted landscape painter who had studied under Jean-Victor Bertin. He travelled a good deal in his own country as well as elsewhere in Europe and the East, and produced a considerable number of views. A regular exhibitor at the Paris Salon exhibitions, he was awarded a gold medal there in 1824 and was given state recognition by being made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1836. As a painter, Coignet holds a middle place between the Idealists and the Realists, and his work is remarkable for the combination of vigour and delicacy in the effects of light and shade, for poetical feeling, for a firm brush, and occasionally for grandeur of conception. This is particularly evident in "The Ruins of the Temple of Paestum", now in Munich's Neue Pinakothek.There are times too when his paintings have an atmospheric, almost Impressionist effect. One example is the coastal sunset in the Louvre; another is the pastel "Grey weather over the sea" (1848) in the Dijon museum. Following the 1824 exhibition in Paris of John Constable's paintings, Coignet began painting outside in the forest of Fontainbleau and encouraged his students to do the same. One of his specialities was painting tree 'portraits', of which there are many examples, both as finished paintings and as sketches in oil paint.

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Jules Coignet The Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau oil painting artist


Jules Coignet The Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau oil painting artist

The Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Painting ID::  72287
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The Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau" c.1830 by Jules Coignet. Oil on canvas. This form of ancient tree is known as a "bouquet" due to the presence of multiple trunks that have sprung up and merged to form a single tree. cjr

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Jules Coignet Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau oil painting artist


Jules Coignet Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau oil painting artist

Old Oak in the Forest of Fontainebleau
Painting ID::  72896
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Date 1830 cyf

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