Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 37,5 cm x 64,5 cm

Signed lower left Jules Geneste

Geneste Pierre-Jules steamer in the storm

GENESTE Pierre-Jules (Libourne in 1826, Castillon-la-Bataille in 1889)

Except a mention of the prestigious Victor Champier in 1878 in The Artistic Year (1), the critical fortune of Jules Geneste is non-existent.

Marine painter, of landscapes and more incidentally, gender and flowers, the artist reveals a somewhat atypical journey. In the exhibition booklets, like Courbet, he does not claim to be a master. In 1866, a Gouache, according to Ziem (n°239), testifies to his unique allegiance to the cantor of Venice, whose lyricism he does not seem to have espoused.

Portrait painter of scupulous ships

He remains attentive to details, while restoring with sincerity and poetry the quality of the air and the delicacy of the Gironde skies.

With a very local career (his name does not appear in the Paris Salon booklets), he started at the Amis des Arts de Bordeaux with : 246 Countryside ; 247 - Cliffs ; 248 Coasts of Brittany, sketch.

French coasts

For several years, its production is divided between views of the Normandy or Breton coast and views taken in Gironde (2).

The Garonne and the Dordogne

In 1867, Arcachon Beach, the evening, reveals his foray into the Basin.

Geneste lives in Libourne, rue de Périgueux between 1860 and 1865; he settles in Bordeaux, 261, Sainte-Catherine Street, from 1865 at 1869, then, 5, Place de la Bourse, until 1874. It is then found at 112, Quai des Chartrons, until 1878, then, 31, Quai de Bacalan, until 1883, date on which he left to live in Castillon sur Dordogne.

The Libourne Museum preserves The Port of Libourne seen from the shore in 1881

1 – Victor Champier, "Art in the provinces, Bordeaux », The artistic year, 1878, p.375.

2 – among the Aquitaine subjects, he exhibits in particular in Bordeaux, in : 1 8 64 : 2 3 2 – Galgon Wood (Gironde), autumn sunset ; 233 – Banks of the Saye (Gironde), rainy weather. 1866 : 236 – The old wooden bridge in Sales, surroundings of Libourne ; 237 – The spillway, spring ; 238 – A trailer on the Garonne, fog. 1867 : 267 – Arcachon beach, the evening ; 268 – Coasts of the Saintonge ; 269 – Coasts of the Saintonge ; 270 – Pointe de Valliere, capture of Royan. 1868 : 312 – Blaye pâté, morning effect. 1869 : 288 – Coasts of the Saintonge. 1870 : 345 – Fire in the harbor of Bordeaux. 1 8 74 : 264 – Surroundings of Bordeaux ; 265 – Near the Chartrons, grain time. 1875 : 273 - The floating basin ; Bordeaux harbor ; 274 - Banks of the Garonne (taken in Bacalan), Small rain ; 275 – Banks of the Garonne ( taken in Lormont), month of October ; 276 – Bordeaux harbor. 1876 : 283 – Cod fisherman, taken in Bacalan. 1877 : 246 - Foreign vessels, dry sails, the morning(port of Bordeaux) : 247 - View taken in Chartrons (port of Bordeaux) ; 249 – View taken in Chartrons. 1878 : 226 – View taken in Chartrons, Bordeaux harbor ; 227 – Railway de M. Labat, october fog ; 228 - A view of Lormont (belongs to M Ychery). 1879 : 218 - Surroundings of Eyzies (Dordogne), Winter. 1881 : 247 - Banks of the Garonne, near Lormont. 1882 : 294 - Port of Royan, low tide (belongs to M.C.. P.).

Source : Mr. Jean-Roger Soubiran – Honorary Professor of History of Contemporary Art at the University of Poitiers

One of his marines, a three mast, is part of the collection of the National Museum in Sweden.

Another by the artist proposed by the Gallery