19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL Two men pulling a shipwreck (?) from...
19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
Two men pulling a shipwreck (?) from the sea under a stormy sky
OIL ON CANVAS
43.5 x 65 cm
Period frame in wood and gilded stucco (damage and missing sections)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
19TH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
Two men pulling a shipwreck (?) from the sea under a stormy sky
OIL ON CANVAS
43.5 x 65 cm
Period frame in wood and gilded stucco (damage and missing sections)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var region, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
French naval engineer (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
