Pierre Emmanuel Eugène Damoye studied under Corot, Daubigny and Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts. He was one of the best artists to continue the tradition of his teachers, Corot and Daubigny.
His main works were: Winter (1875); Meadows of Mortfontaine (1876); Pastures of Cucq (1878); Mill of Merlimont (1879) which received a third-place medal; Carrefour de l’Épine (1880); Mill of Gouillandeur (1881); and Plain of Gennevilliers (1884) which received a second-place medal.
Damoye began exhibiting landscapes in 1875. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889 and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1893. A member of the jury and hors Concours at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890 and served on its committee.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Antwerp: Marshland; Environs of Amiens
Arras
Dunkirk
Helsinki
Hyères: Autumn; Landscape of the Touraine; Pond
Montreal: St-Denis, near Paris
Paris (MAM)
Périgueux: The Seine at Épinay
Auction Records
Realised Price:
€3,200
New York, 6 May 1987: Village and its Surroundings (1881, oil on panel, 12¾ × 23½ ins/32.5 × 60 cm) USD 6,200
Paris, 28 March 1988: Flooding (1906, oil on canvas, 26½ × 39¼ ins/67 × 100 cm) FRF 24,000
Paris, 7 June 1988: Landscape with a Pond (1892, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 26,000
London, 21 Oct 1988: Fruit Trees by the Sea (1904, oil on canvas, 20 × 29 ins/50.7 × 73.5 cm) GBP 2,640
Paris, 16 Dec 1988: River-bank (1903, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 21,000
Cologne, 15 June 1989: River Landscape in France (1891, oil on canvas, 28¾ × 19¾ ins/73 × 50 cm) DEM 8,000
Monaco, 3 Dec 1989: Washerwomen near a Pond (1879, oil on panel, 9 × 13¾ ins/22 × 35 cm) FRF 22,200
Paris, 18 Dec 1989: Washerwomen (oil on canvas, 26½ × 48 ins/67 × 121 cm) FRF 50,000
New York, 17 Jan 1990: Coastal Landscape (oil on canvas, 17½ × 32½ ins/44.6 × 82.7 cm) USD 6,050
Paris, 3 April 1990: Landscape with a Pond (1892, oil on canvas, 17¼ × 32¾ ins/44 × 83 cm) FRF 31,000
Paris, 14 June 1993: River-bank in Winter (1903, oil on canvas, 19¾ × 28¾ ins/50 × 73 cm) FRF 27,000
London, 27 Oct 1993: Meadow near the Sea (1897, oil on canvas, 25½ × 43 ins/65 × 109 cm) GBP 1,955
Paris, 23 March 1994: Marshland by the Sea (1882, oil on panel, 13 × 24½ ins/33 × 62 cm) FRF 23,000
Paris, 8 Dec 1995: Cows in a Meadow (1897, oil on panel, 13 × 23½ ins/33 × 60 cm) FRF 22,000
Paris, 26 Nov 1996: Cows in a Meadow (1897, oil on panel, 13 × 23½ ins/33 × 60 cm) FRF 14,600
London, 13 March 1997: Open Country (oil on canvas, 26 × 47 ins/66.2 × 119.6 cm) GBP 4,830
New York, 23 May 1997: Corn in Brittany (1890, oil on canvas, 43¼ × 78¾ ins/109.9 × 200 cm) USD 43,125
Paris, 12 Dec 1997: Landscape by the Sea (oil on canvas, 17¾ × 33½ ins/45 × 85 cm) FRF 23,000
New York, 10 Feb 1998: Winter’s Day (oil on canvas, 15 × 24 ins/38 × 61 cm) USD 3,680
New York, 18 March 1998: On the Banks of a River (1904, oil on canvas, 26 × 43½ ins/66 × 110.5 cm) USD 11,500
