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| Click image to be depressed. Boat on the Shore Charles Hoguet, c. 1850 The Victoria & Albert Museum |
Charles Hoguet (1821-1870) was is best remembered for his attractive seascapes as well as his still-lives and landscapes. The sea had always fascinated Hoguet who had, at an early age, studied with the seascape painter Wilhelm August Christian Leopold Krause (1802-1864) and, then, later completed his apprenticeship in Paris with Eugène Ciceri (1813-90). Marine paintings won Hoguet medals in Paris in 1848 and 1859.
The artist’s marine works are typified by an almost monochromatic palette of cool hues. The painting pictured above is an excellent example of his work. Painted around 1845, the piece nods at Seventeenth Century Dutch paintings while keeping a then-modern approach to the scene.
2 comments:
Would make a superb Christmas card for Dr. Kevorkian. Except he's already dead.
It has all the giddy charm you'd expect from a German-born French arist with a thing for Dutch marinescapes.
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