Offered by Romano Ischia
Venice, lights and shadows at the Dogana.
Maurice Bompard (Rodez 1857-Paris 1935)
Oil on canvas
Golden contemporary frame
Canvas cm.138 x 92 frame 171 x 125
Excellent condition
A large and bright view of the waters of the Grand Canal that open onto the San Marco Basin, between lights and shadows at sunset. The image of the island of San Giorgio Maggiore is magnificent with the church irradiated by the glow of the sunset and the rounded shape of the full moon rising from the lagoon. In the foreground is the Dogana building with the typical Venetian boats moored. The gondola backlit that crosses the vivid waters of reflections under the moon is pure poetry.
The painting is a hymn to the waters of the lagoon and their extraordinary suggestions.
The Author is the famous French painter Maurice Bompard (Rodez 1857-Paris 1935), specialized in orientalist painting but also a great interpreter of Venetian views.
The canvas is signed and should be placed in his production of the 1880s, during his stay in Italy thanks to a scholarship.
The exceptional beauty and importance of the original frame richly decorated and gilded should be emphasized.
Biography:
Maurice Bompard was born in Rodez on February 11, 18571, son of Henry Bompard, a merchant, and Rosalie Albouy.
He arrived in Marseille at a very young age where he studied painting with Dominique Antoine Magaud. He then went to Paris where he was a student of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Fine Arts. From 1878 he exhibited regularly at the Salon des artistes français. He exhibited at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris and at the Colonial Exhibition of Marseille in 1906.
He was a founding member of the Society of French Orientalist Painters and exhibited his works at the Salon of Algerian and Orientalist Artists in Algiers.
In 1882 he obtained a scholarship that allowed him to visit Germany, Italy, Tunisia and Spain. Between 1890 and 1900 he stayed in Biskra in Algeria, where he painted scenes of oriental daily life but also views of Venice.
Maurice Bompard died on April 30, 1935 in his home at 167 boulevard Pereire in Paris.
Many of his works are exhibited in important museums and public collections in France:
Agen, Museum of Fine Arts: Oued Chetma in summer
Angers, Museum of Fine Arts: Venice, the Rio San Pietro11; Oued Chetma in summer.
Marseille:
Museum of Fine Arts: The Butchers of Chetma, Harem Scene, The Spinner, Church of the Gesù in Venice.
Museum Cantini: Still Life with Terracotta, Studying in Venice.
Paris:
Louvre Museum: Seated Arab.
Museum d'Orsay: The Three Hours Prayer, Landscape of Aveyron, Prayer to the Madonna, Portrait of My Father.
Le Puy-en-Velay, Crozatier Museum: The Tripiers of the Calle de la Madone in Venice.
Rennes, Museum of Fine Arts: The Model.
Rodez, Museum of Fine Arts: Venetian Interior, The Infanta, Villa d’Este, View of Venice, Piazza San Marco in Venice,
The Palaces of the Basin of San Marco in Venice.
Troyes, Saint-Loup Museum: View of Venice.
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