COGGHE Remy
GONDOLA IN VENICE
Oil on canvas: 55.5 x 40 cm / 21.8 x 15.7 in
Signed lower left
Painter of genre scenes, portraits and landscapes; draughtsman.
Remy Cogghe had his training at the Academy of Roubaix, then at the Ecole Nationale et Spéciale des Beaux-Arts (the National and Special School of Fine Arts) in Paris (1876), with Cabanel.
He won the Prix de Rome in 1880 and stayed between 1881 and 1885 in Paris, Rome, Toledo and Florence, and then settled down in Roubaix.
Cogghe had a predilection for genre scenes, portraits and landscapes. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français ( the Salon of French Artists) from 1885 until 1935. He made a study trip to Italy with Flori Van Acker and Emile Bousin.
He mostly painted in an academic style and represented in his work the image of the daily life of the population and the bourgeoisie.
Cogghe received an honorable mention in 1887 and a third class medal in 1889 at the Paris Salon.
This work is shown in the exhibition catalog: “Remy Cogghe”, Roubaix, November 16 – December 24, 1985, under number 35.
Period:
Mouscron 1854 - 1935
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Kortrijk - Tournai
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, p. 114.
