LANSYER Emmanuel Painting 19th Century Mediterranean Landscape Oil on canvas signed and dated

LANSYER Emmanuel (1835/1893) 

Mediterranean landscape.

Oil on canvas signed and dated (18) 74

27,5x42 cm

Certificate of authenticity.

Museums: Auxerre, Castres, Dunkirk, Geneva, Lille, Lisieux, Loches, Nantes, Paris (Louvre Museum, Petit Palais Museum), Philadelphia, Tours, Valenciennes. 

Emmanuel Lansyer was born in Vendée, in Bouin before joining a few kilometers from the town of Machecoul. His father, a doctor, dedicated him to a notarial career, but Emmanuel was not as passionate about his studies as he was about drawing. A craze that manifests itself from his earliest childhood. Indeed Emmanuel Lansyer sketches the ruins of the castle of Machecoul, and the holidays spent in Pornic, Bernerie or even Préfailles will leave him this taste for coastal landscapes… Promising, his drawing teacher from St Joseph College encourages him to paint. His father, resigned, confides Emmanuel, then 20 years old, to his architect cousin. Then from Châteauroux, Emmanuel left for Paris in 1857 to study with Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The workshop closes, the master unavailable to his students devotes himself to the many projects. Emmanuel remained in Paris and although Viollet-le-Duc offered him a job as an architect in the department, he chose brushes, not giving up on his career as a painter.In 1861, he briefly joined the courses of Gustave Courbet. The year 1863 marked the beginning of his career, when his submissions to the Salon des Refusés aroused interest. He quickly oriented his painting towards the landscape, and "A September morning in Douarnenez" and "The edges of the Ellée au Faouêt" earned him his first medals at the Salon of 1865. Brittany inspired him. He likes to stay there. There, he befriends the poet José Maria de Heredia. He also meets Sully Prudhomme, another poet, Hyppolite Moulin, a sculptor, Jules Héreau, architect then painter (like Lansyer). Between his Breton journeys Emmanuel Lansyer resides in Loches and has a foothold in the capital. He obtains another medal in 1869 thanks to the “Château de Pierrefonds”, a painting which had been commissioned to him by Viollet-le-Duc. In 1877, he freed himself from the intermediaries of the art market to sell his works himself at a big sale: a success repeated three more times. Recognized, he responded to orders from the state and presided over the Salon des Artistes Français as a member of the Jury from 1881. It was around the 1880s that Emmanuel Lansyer produced views of Parthenay. He maintained a friendly relationship with the faencier and painter Henri Amirault, to whom he offered, in 1883, a "view of the Tour Saint Jacques and the old Parthenay bridge". The same year, he exhibited in Rochefort "Tower and ruined walls of the Citadel of Parthenay". Emmanuel Lansyer died in Paris in 1893 bequeathing to the town of Loches his house, his works, his collections of engravings, objects and paintings. Japanese prints.