This seascape executed by famous Swiss marine and landscape painter Arthur (Jean-Baptiste Arthur) Calame (1843 Geneva - 1919 Geneva). He was the son of another Swiss landscape artist Alexandre C. and Amélie Müntz-Berger. Studied after 1855 in the private Inst. Collège LeCoultre Geneva. His father lets him to copy his own drawings and paintings (E.g. multiple views of Lake Lucerne, the "d ´ après Alexandre Calame, Arthur Calame" REF. are). Further lessons with Alexandre C.s. students Centurione. Travels in 1860 together with the father to Avignon, Marseille, Toulon, Villfranche and the Italian Riviera; C. is especially impressed with the sea and the boats and fill several sketch books. 1864 with the father in Seelisberg and Menton, where he is present at his death. Studied in Düsseldorf until 1867 by Oswald Achenbach. living with the family of the painter Benjamin Vautier. oo1867 Laure Snell in Geneva. Frequent stays in Italy, mainly in Venice, where he painted the palaces along the Canale Grande, San Marco and the Piazzetta; also in San Remo, Savona, Capodimonte, Piedigrotto, Amalfi, and in Tuscany. also often on the Côte d´Azur and the Basque coast. After the death of his wife and his daughter Calame leaves South France and settled in Brittany in 1879-1880 to paint marine, seascapes and landscapes .

Awards: 1884 Lyon, Med. Soc.. des Amis des Arts; 1887 Dijon, Med. de la SOC. des Amis des arts. -As a "Painter of the sea", C. represented a moderate realism, often with evocative descriptions of Mediterranean life.

Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart".

Inscription: signed lower left.Technique: oil on wood, original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: image w 11 1/4 " x h 8 1/4" (28,5 x 21 cm); framed w 19 2/3 " x h 16 1/2 " (50 x 42 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.