Pierre Emmanuel Damoye

Pierre Emmanuel Damoye studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Léon Bonnat is recorded. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is landscape painting. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny are recorded as an influence. Work by Pierre Emmanuel Damoye is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Finnish National Gallery, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Musée d'Orsay and Musée Carnavalet. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Pierre Emmanuel Damoye • Born — 20 February 1847 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Place of death — Paris, France • Known for — Landscape art, Painting • Training — École des Beaux-Arts • Movement — Barbizon School • Awards — Gold Medal Exposition Universelle (1889); Légion d'honneur in 1893

• Illustration — Landscape with Thatched Cottage Damoye began to exhibit at the Salon of 1875 with a landscape titled L’hiver, and by 1879 he had won his first medal, a bronze or third class honor, beginning an unusually rapid rise for a landscape painter. In 1884 he received a second class medal, followed by a very prestigious gold medal at the grand, centennial Exposition Universelle (1889). He was inducted into the Légion d'honneur in 1893 and became a member of the Salon jury in 1900. Despite such official recognition, however, Damoye was instrumental in forming the break-away Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, a rival exhibition association, and he continued to be associated with the ‘Salon du Champ-de-Mars’ until his death in 1916.

• Illustration — Landscape in Summer (oil on panel) Damoye studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of Léon Bonnat, one of the foremost figure painters and portraitists of the late nineteenth-century. Damoye, however, seems to have committed himself to landscape art from the beginning of his career. His earliest dated works from the late 1860s also clearly reveal the influence of both Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, from whom he acquired both a brighter range of colors and a looser, more ‘impressionist’ brush style. And, although he was cognizant of the example of Corot and Daubigny, he built his repertoire of compositions and favored sites quite independently of the two ‘old masters’ of river landscape, thus developing a very personalized color scheme. He is also one of the principal artists associated with the ‘school of Pontoise’, a group of young landscapists who painted primarily along the riverbanks of the Seine and Oise Rivers, north of Paris, often establishing homes in Pontoise. He also painted the river banks and upland plateaus of the Oise and Seine basins, worked frequently in Picardy and throughout the great Loire valley. He also made at least one trip to the Normandy coast.

Pierre Emmanuel Damoye died in 1916 and is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Damoye's works can be seen in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes, France; and the National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania; Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki. Auction results to 2010 include sales at Christie's (New York, $30,000), Osenat (Paris, $11,470), Sotheby's (New York, $10,800), and Beaussant Lefevre (Paris, $10,230).