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Joseph Vickers De VilleClaire de Lune - Moonlight - British 1916 Impressionist landscape oil painting1916-19
1916-19
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This stunning British Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted British artist Joseph Vickers de Ville. It is entitled Clair de Lune verso and dated 1916-1919. Clair de Lune, French for Moonlight, is also a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque. Vickers also painted The Moonlight to illustrate Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. So clearly Vickers liked to paint moonlit landscapes and illustrate music with moonlight connections. In this particular painting, women sit on a wall in the foreground beneath magnificent tall trees. Beyond them is the sweep of a bay or lake with buildings on the far side. A full moon is just beginning its ascent, bathing the scene in its light. There is wonderful heavy impasto throughout and the palette of greens in the trees is very rich and varied. The moonlight beautifully illuminates the buildings, highlighted with white impasto. A really charming British 1916 painting and an excellent example of Joseph Vickers de Ville's work.
He has many works in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery collection.
Signed lower left, titled verso and dated 1916-1919.
Provenance. Scottish estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, image size 22 inches by 18 inches and in excellent condition.
Frame. Housed in gilt frame which compliments the picture, 30 inches by 26 inches. In excellent condition.
Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856-1925) was an English painter of landscapes and rural subjects. A son of the farmers Joseph and Mary Deville, he was born in Eaton, Derbyshire, but he is considered a Wolverhampton artist, as he lived most of his life in Compton, a suburb of Wolverhampton. He was in Wolverhampton by 1881, and the 1881 census shows that at that time his household included his widowed mother and brothers Richard and John. Vickers de Ville was not professionally trained and did not consider himself a professional artist, however, his artistic gift was recognised and appreciated. In Compton, he maintained a studio in Tettenhall Wood. From 1887, he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Between 1876-1920, sixty eight of his works were shown at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, a full member of which he was elected in 1917. Vickers de Ville worked in both oils and watercolours. His favourite subject was North Wales where "he first obtained his inspiration amid the grand and imposing scenery", with particular inclination to coastal landscapes and streams and rivers, and investigation of light effects in open air. It was noticed that "few can rival him in depicting torrent, rock, river and trees." His landscapes of the Cotswolds, Malvern, Cheshire and Staffordshire are also well known. Often they expressed the mood of melancholy and solitude, like his painting 'The Moonlight' which was to illustrate Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'. Vickers de Ville's personal exhibition was successfully held at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 1915. It presented sixty-four paintings and numerous sketches, many of which were loaned by Scottish, Liverpool and London patrons. The exhibition was favourably reviewed and it was particularly mentioned that "a great many of his pictures are in the United States, and others have found owners in France, Germany and South America. Most of them were bought by the Americans. The demand from abroad is one of the reasons why Wolverhampton people have been able to see so little of his work." In 1923, there was another exhibition of his drawings. A number of paintings by Vickers de Ville have been preserved at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. His works also can be found at McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock, Sheffield Museum and Art Gallery and other public and private collections.
Exhibited: Royal Academy 20, Birmingham 19, Liverpool, Manchester 11, Glasgow Institute, Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2, Fine Art Society 1.
- Creator:Joseph Vickers De Ville (1856 - 1925, British)
- Creation Year:1916-19
- Dimensions:Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 30 in (76.2 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU853113245762
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