Jules COIGNET (1798-1860)
Cemetery in Ottoman country (near Istanbul?)
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower left.
43 x 67cm
Beautiful 19th century stuccoed and gilded wood frame.
Between 1844 and 1846, Jules Coignet visited Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt. At the 1849 Salon, he exhibited two paintings of Constantinople: Les Eaux Douces d'Asie and a second entitled Vue du château d'Europe - Bosphore. A pupil of Jean-Victor Bertin, Coignet learned the principles of classical landscape painting, but also belonged to the generation of travelling landscape painters (Rémond, Giroux) who renewed the genre by studying motifs in the open air, before creating the final composition in the studio. Gifted with great pencil skills and exceptional craftsmanship, he became one of the most renowned landscape painters of his time. Our painting depicts a mosque and a picturesque cemetery in the mountains, probably on the outskirts of Istanbul. It is unquestionably an achievement of Turkish Orientalism, in which the realistic depiction of Ottoman life is bathed in the romantic mood then in vogue in French painting.
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