The artwork

Pair of Emile Godchaux, mountain landscapes, French School late nineteenth.

Signed: signatures on the bottom left and right

Painter referenced and side.

Oil painting on canvas, in very good condition,

Subject: Mountain landscape in summer

Period: Late nineteenth / early twentieth century

Formats: with frame48 x 29 cm - without frame 40.5 x 21.5 cm

Frame : painted wooden frame, vintage painting, in good condition

Biography :

Emile Godchaux (1860-1938)

Born around 1860 in Bordeaux, he may be from the family of the sculptor Roger Godchaux. He is often confused with Alfred Godchaux, a painter from Lyon who, at the same time, painted on similar themes and in a fairly close style.
Well known old antique dealers Bordeaux around 1900, because he sold his paintings by presenting them in public places, sometimes putting them in the lottery: the table was then the jackpot of a series of 10 or 20 tickets of 1 franc.
His favorite themes are the ports, the cliffs of the Normandy coast, the Atlantic beaches animated with fishermen and boats, the mountainous landscapes taken on the ground, in the Pyrenees and in Savoy, Venice. His skies are tumultuous, his characters in fisherman costumes or peasants end of the century. The material is beautiful, generous and dense, the drawing robust in its schematism. The signature comes in two very different forms, one classic, a wide and very legible, the other finely dug in the dough by means of a point (some canvases carry the double signature).
A certain mystery still hangs over this prolific painter for whom research is in progress.

Source: Dictionary of Little Masters of Painting from 1820 to 1920 by Gerald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne and Benezit.

Table visible on Avignon (France),

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