Oil On Wood

Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine


Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine
Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine

Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine    Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine

EUGÈNE FEYEN - RARE OIL ON WOOD - Bonsecours factory and church, Nancy.

Oil on wood by Jacques Eugène Feyen, signed EUG. FEYEN, measuring approximately 25.5 x 16.5 cm without the frame (frame: 29 x 20.5 cm). Original gilded wooden frame with some damage.

The painting is in its original condition, as found about fifteen years ago, and has not been cleaned.

On the back, it has a damaged paper note explaining its provenance: “This painting on wood was given to my mother by one of her friends, Miss Lieubard or Lieubaud? , Eugène Feyen’s niece, because it depicted the Bonsecours factories in Nancy and the Marne-Rhine Canal. On the right is the church of Bonsecours, next to which we lived. Aunt Marie kept it, and I recovered it after her death.

It cannot be very valuable. Eugène Feyen is known for his works made in Brittany, but I have not found any listed works located in his native region.

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Additional photos available on request.

Jacques Eugène Feyen, born on November 13, 1815 in Bey-sur-Seille (Meurthe) and died on July 24, 1908 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, was a French photographer and painter. The eldest son of a tax collector and older brother of the painter Augustin Feyen-Perrin, Eugène entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied in the studio of Paul Delaroche. After working in photography with his brother, he returned to painting. He exhibited at the Salon from 1841 to 1882, where he received medals in 1866 and 1880.

He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1881.

Eugène Feyen spent his summers in Cancale and spent several months each year there painting views of oyster harvesting and the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. His naturalist paintings were appreciated in France and abroad. His copy of the Mona Lisa temporarily replaced the painting stolen in 1913 from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

He is buried in the same grave as his brother in Paris at Montmartre Cemetery (18th division). He is the author of the sculpted medallion showing his profile, which adorns their tombstone.


Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine    Eugène Feyen Rare Oil on Wood Factory and Church Bonsecours Nancy Lorraine