Attr. French master night fire on sailing ship in port 18C antique oil ^Sale

People are evacuated from the sailing ship in a panic, there is a fuss... Despite this, the painting does not cause tension, but even fascinates, riveting the viewer's attention. Panoramic seascape painted in the best traditions of the old masters. Unsigned panel was attributed to Volaire, dit parfois Jacques-Antoine Volaire.

Size app.: 11,5 x 22,5 cm (roughly 4,5 x 8,8 in) and original frame of 18th century ca 19 x 30,6 cm (roughly 7,5 x 12 in). Very Good condition, wear, cracquelure. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 0,7 kg is going to measure some 2 kg volume weight packed for shipment.

Jacques-Antoine Volaire, dit aussi Le chevalier Volaire, né à Toulon en 1729 et mort en 1799 à Naples, est un peintre de vedute français. Coming from a large family of painters from Toulon (his grandfather Jean Volaire was a painter and decorator in the arsenal, his father Jacques Volaire 2 official painter of the city), Pierre-Jacques Volaire became in 1754 and until 1762, Claude Joseph Vernet's collaborator for his Ports de France series . Vernet's influence will mark part of Volaire's production, in particular its navies. In 1762 Volaire settled in Rome , there became a member of the Academy of Saint-Luke and knight. But competition on the art market determined him to settle in Naples in 1767, where he would remain from now on. He specializes in representations of Vesuvius in eruption. The volcano is then in full activity and Naples attracts travelers of the " Grand Tour " (English, French, Germans, Russians) who constitute the clientele of the artist. Volaire will show the eruptions of the volcano from different points of view and in different formats. The success of his paintings encourages competition from painters such as Jacob Philipp Hackert, Wütky, Joseph Wright of Derby or Pietro Antoniani , and gives birth to the end of the 18C to the Neapolitan watercolors of Pietro Fabris , Giovanni Battista Lusieri and Saverio Della Gatta.