Daniel Jaugey (born 1929), Boats in the Harbor, Signed Oil on Canvas, Framed

This oil on canvas depicts a harbour scene with boats at mooring, their hulls and masts reflected in the still water of the port. The painting is built with a firm, constructed touch, in visible layered strokes, and a palette resting almost entirely on blues, pale greys and warm whites, punctuated by small touches of orange and red on the hulls. The boats are arranged in a staggered formation that leads the eye from the foreground into the middle distance, where the quayside and the pale facades of the harbour town close the scene. The reflections are laid in with short horizontal strokes that suggest the gentle movement of the surface without disturbing the overall calm. Each boat is individualized through slight differences in colour, proportion and positioning. The painting is signed in the bottom right, "Jaugey", and is presented in a wide frame with blue painted panels and gilt corner ornaments.

Daniel Jaugey, born in 1929, is a French painter of harbour scenes, marine subjects and coastal landscapes. The handling here belongs to the Post-Impressionist current, where form is built by blocks of colour and by the thickness of the paint rather than by the dissolving light of the Impressionists. French harbours have been a continuous subject since the nineteenth century, and painters of the twentieth century inherited that motif and reworked it with a firmer, more constructed touch.