Background
Damoye was born in Paris, France on February 20, 1847.
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Pierre Damoye started his artistic instruction at École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Pierre Emmanuel Damoye.
Damoye was born in Paris, France on February 20, 1847.
Pierre Damoye started his artistic instruction at École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the studio of the notable history, portrait and landscape painter Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat. He also studied under the supervision of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and Charles François Daubigny, from whom Damoye acquired both a brighter range of colours and a looser, more "impressionist" brush style.
Landscape painting was Damoye's passion right from the beginning of his career. His deep respect for the Barbizon School and in particular, two of its great masters Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, was obvious in the earliest dated artworks which he created towards the end of the 1860s. However, he built his repertoire of compositions and favored sites rather independently of the two ‘old masters’ of river landscape, thus developing a very personalized colour scheme.
Pierre Damoye was particularly skilled in portraying the heat of summer with plains dotted with farm buildings and trees, often with low horizons. The artist favoured swamps, rivers and water meadows. Damoye was also amazed by the landscape to the north of Paris, depicting the Oise and Seine riverbanks and surrounding plateaus as well as the Picardy region, Loire valley. He also made at least one trip to the Normandy coast.
He was one of the principal artists associated with the School of Pontoise. This was an unofficial group of young painters of the Barbizon and subsequent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist schools who found their inspiration in the north-west area of Paris, which included the towns of Pontoise, Argenteuil, Bougival, Auvers-sur-Oise and others.
Damoye started to exhibit at the Salon of 1875, presenting his landscape entitled L’hiver. He joined, as one of the founding members, La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, a rival exhibiting group which was revived in 1890 as opposition to the firm classical French art world. It supported non-conformity and included previous exhibitors such as Léon Bonnet, Daubigny, Gustave Doré, and Meissonier and came to be regarded one as the earliest manifestations of Secessionism. He also exhibited at Le Salon de Champ-de-Mars until the end of his life.
The village pond
A Landscape with Cows
A Lake in a Clearing
The French coastline at sunset
Banks of the River
A Landscape
Coucher de soleil sur l'étang
Paysage Au Moulin
Prairies inondees / Pas de Calais
Autumn Landscape
Apres la Giboulee, Sologne
Near Amiens
Sur la Côté Bretonne
Farm Workers
Landscape in Summer
La côte sauvage à Quiberon
Printemps
Summer Landscape
Paysage boisé
Vue présumée d'Argenteuil, bord de Seine
Vue de village
Paysage bord de rivière
Cattle in a landscape
En plein air
A farm landscape
A river landscape
French countryside
Cattle grazing
Village au bord de l'eau
Park in Moulins in Tonnerais