Émile Louis MATHON (1842 - 1893) - Lot 51

Émile Louis MATHON (1842 - 1893) View of Neuville-lès-Dieppe 1883 Oil on panel 17.5 x 27.3 cm Provenance: Paul Touzet collection Mathon lived in Dieppe, where he owned the villa Plein-Air, and was very attached to his town. At the time, the town was separated into two districts by the harbor and the basin: Dieppe and Neuville les Dieppe. Our painting shows the eastern side. Mathon's work allows us to recreate ancient views of the Normandy town that have now disappeared. His paintings are held at the Dieppe Museum, the Granville Museum of Art and History, the André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art in Le Havre and the Gallé-Juillet Museum in Creil; in Paris, at the Carnavalet Museum and the Musée de la Marine. A pupil of Charles-François Daubigny, Émile Mathon exhibited in Paris at the Salon from 1868 to 1887. During his career, he painted Paris and the banks of the Seine, country scenes and maritime views - fishing scenes, warships, harbor views - Normandy and the Channel coast. A frequent traveler, notably to Russia (1879), Spain (1882), Algiers and Tunis (1891 and 1894), he brought back highly colorful works with rigorous draftsmanship.