A very impressive and very large signed oil by Eugene Damoye depicting a Barbizon river landscape with figure and trees by a cottage on the river. The work is signed lower right and unlined on its original canvas. The artist is highly sought after for exactly these subjects and his work sells very very well at auction for up to £33,000 for a single oil and similar size works to this at £8,000 to £10,000.

Signature: Signed lower right

Oil on original canvas

Size: c. 22 x 36 inches unframed / 28 x 42 framed

His main works were: Winter (1875); Meadows of Mortfontaine (1876); Pastures of Cucq (1878); Mill of Merlimont (1879) which received a third-place medal; Carrefour de l’Épine (1880); Mill of Gouillandeur (1881); and Plain of Gennevilliers (1884) which received a second-place medal.

Damoye began exhibiting landscapes in 1875. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1893. A member of the jury and hors Concours at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890 and served on its committee.

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Antwerp: Marshland; Environs of Amiens

Arras

Dunkirk

Helsinki

Hyères: Autumn; Landscape of the Touraine; Pond

Montreal: St-Denis, near Paris

Paris (MAM)

Périgueux: The Seine at Épinay

Auction Records

Paris, 28 March 1988: Flooding (1906, oil on canvas, 26½ × 39¼ ins/67 × 100 cm) FRF 24,000

Paris, 7 June 1988: Landscape with a Pond (1892, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 26,000

London, 21 Oct 1988: Fruit Trees by the Sea (1904, oil on canvas, 20 × 29 ins/50.7 × 73.5 cm) GBP 2,640

Paris, 16 Dec 1988: River-bank (1903, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 21,000

Cologne, 15 June 1989: River Landscape in France (1891, oil on canvas, 28¾ × 19¾ ins/73 × 50 cm) DEM 8,000

Monaco, 3 Dec 1989: Washerwomen near a Pond (1879, oil on panel, 9 × 13¾ ins/22 × 35 cm) FRF 22,200

Paris, 18 Dec 1989: Washerwomen (oil on canvas, 26½ × 48 ins/67 × 121 cm) FRF 50,000

Paris, 14 June 1993: River-bank in Winter (1903, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 27,000

London, 27 Oct 1993: Meadow near the Sea (1897, oil on canvas, 25½ × 43 ins/65 × 109 cm) GBP 1,955

Paris, 23 March 1994: Marshland by the Sea (1882, oil on panel, 13 × 24½ ins/33 × 62 cm) FRF 23,000

Paris, 8 Dec 1995: Cows in a Meadow (1897, oil on panel, 13 × 23½ ins/33 × 60 cm) FRF 22,000

Paris, 26 Nov 1996: Cows in a Meadow (1897, oil on panel, 13 × 23½ ins/33 × 60 cm) FRF 14,600

London, 13 March 1997: Open Country (oil on canvas, 26 × 47 ins/66.2 × 119.6 cm) GBP 4,830

New York, 23 May 1997: Corn in Brittany (1890, oil on canvas, 43¼ × 78¾ ins/109.9 × 200 cm) USD 43,125

Paris, 12 Dec 1997: Landscape by the Sea (oil on canvas, 17¾ × 33½ ins/45 × 85 cm) FRF 23,000

New York, 10 Feb 1998: Winter’s Day (oil on canvas, 15 × 24 ins/38 × 61 cm) USD 3,680

New York, 18 March 1998: On the Banks of a River (1904, oil on canvas, 26 × 43½ ins/66 × 110.5 cm) USD 11,500