Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
It is signed and dated by the artist and has an inscribtion on the rear.
Stievenart was born in Douai on May 21, 1862 and died in Uccle ( Belgium ) on January 22, 1922. He was a French landscape painter of the Wissant School on the north of the Opal Coast. He studied at the Lycée du Douai, but developed his talents at the Academic Schools. His first master was Constant Petit. From 1878 to 1880, F. Stiévenart regularly followed the courses of the Academic Schools and each year, in each of the three divisions, won the first medals. He was awarded one of the first at the School of Fine Arts.
As early as 1888, he appeared in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français with works representing landscapes. However, was in 1893 that he became a member of the Society of French Artists and that he received a eulogy (honorable mention voted unanimously that ranked the first among the mentioned).
Shortly after a terrible shipwreck Wissant in 1983, Stiévenart will help Adrien Demont , Pierre Carrier-Belleuse and Félix Planquette founded a public limited company named the Wreck, in order to distribute fishing equipment to those who had lost at sea .
Originally from Douai, he lived there with his wife painter, Juliette De Reul, at No. 7 rue Jean-de-Gouy until 1895 (or 1900) when they moved to Wissant ( Pas-de -Calais ) at the villa Sainte-Marie flowers. He will create his studio there. Workshop and villa that will be bought and occupied at the end of the war by the painter Paule Crampel (rue Paule-Crampel).
He received the bronze medal at the 1900 World Fair, which welcomed more than 50 million spectators and he won the third class medal at the Salon des artistes Français in 1902 with a landscape of Boulonnais . At the end of his life, he moved to Belgium , in Uccle , at 80 Bel-Air Avenue, in a magnificent mansion he had built.
Dimensions - 84 cm x 73 cm
Rue des Fontenelles has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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