Oil on wood panel, signed Dieudonné Jacobs (1887-1967) Mountain Landscape

  

Superb mountain landscape with a blooming almond tree. A beautiful Napoleonic frame that contrasts perfectly with the painting.

Probably a painting made in Corsica. Dieudonné Jacobs was born on June 10, 1887 in Montegnée, near Liège, a city of miners.

He was a student of prominent professors of the time: A de Witte, Donnay and G Carpentier. He was one of the most diligent students at the Academy of Liège. He fought in the war of 1914, was captured in the Battle of Liège, escaped and rejoined his regiment. He was discharged and went to the south of France to meet his brother Isidore, a professor at the conservatory of Toulon. There, he met his future wife, a young 18-year-old girl from Toulon. He settled in La Garde.

Jacobs provided his assistance everywhere, to refugees, the Red Cross, and convalescent soldiers: "His palette is all charity." His reputation as a painter and a man of the court quickly spread. Twice a scholar in Rome (1925 to 1930), he stayed at the Darchis Foundation for 4 years. He absorbed the pictorial discipline of the great masters of Italy. In Rome, he was noticed even at the Vatican.

Around 1925, he painted the portrait of Pope Pius XI, then he was called back to Rome in 1939 to paint the painting of the Canonization of Blessed Emilie de Vialar. Today, one can find the works of this Master from Wallonia throughout Europe: in museums in Paris (Beaubourg), Rome (National Museum of Modern Art), Liège (Fine Arts Museum), Lyon (City Hall), Toulon, Spa... Works by Dieudonné Jacobs are part of the collections of H.

Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, Princess Marie-José.