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The Castle Annecy is the old residence of the counts of Geneva and the Dukes of Nemours. It is located on the lake and in the town with the same name in the centre of the département of Haute-Savoie, which belongs to the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in southeastern of France, not far from Geneva.
The author of our painting Claude-Sébastien Hugard de la Tour (1818 Cluses -1886 Paris ) was famous French painter and watercolourist. He learned painting by Alexandre Calame in Geneva, and then by François Diday. They were well-known Swiss landscape painters from the romantic School. He found inspiration for his paintings in sweeping landscapes from the French Alps, but he also painted in Normandy, Brie and in the Pyrenees and later near Paris. Very similar pair of his landscapes near Faverges, also in Savoie was sold in the auction house Rossini/Paris on 28.11.2014 (for images see additional photos).
As soon as he came to live in Paris he soon had much success. He took part in the Paris Salon of 1844 to 1880. He became the third-class medal in 1844 and the second class medal in 1846. The French Government bought many of his paintings.
His works are represented in several French, usually local museums: Annecy, Aurillac, Bagnères de Bigorre, Béziers and Chambéry.
Literature: Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon", Leipzig, 199;
Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs; édition Gründ, Paris, 1976; in on-line: Wikimedia Commons.
Inscription: signed lower in the middle.
Technique: oil on wood panel. Original period gold-plated frame.
Measurements: unframed w 16 1/2" x h 13" (42 x 33 cm ), framed w 20 7/8" x h 17 1/3" (53 x 44 cm).
Condition: in very good condition.
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