ARTIST: Louis Aime Japy (French, Italian, 1840 - 1916)
TITLE: Landscape with Flock of Sheep
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Some minor paint losses. Some craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings under UV light. Minor damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 19 x 22 inches / 48 x 55 cm
FRAME SIZE: 26 x 30 inches / 66 x 76 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Louis Aime Japy was a French painter. He was born in Doubs and travelled to Paris where he became a pupil of Camille Corot and Francois-Louis Francais. He is known for landscapes and fruit and flower still lifes.Louis-Aime Japy was a talented artist who painted nature with a great deal of sensitivity. He visited Italy at the beginning of his career and while he made Italy the subject of many paintings, the majority of his works are of the French countryside, particularly the Jura and Doubs in the Franche-Comte region.Japy was a student of FranÑais and Corot. He debuted at the Salon of 1864, and was made a Societaire des Artistes FranÑais in 1883. He was awarded a medal in 1870, a second class medal in 1873, and silver medals at the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles. In 1906 he was made a Chevalier at the Legion d'Honneur confirming the high regard in which he was held in his lifetime.