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Oil on panel representing a marine landscape, with the steamboat the "Tiberiade*" in the harbor of Salonika in Greece in 1940, signed A. Valloton, vintage 20th century.
This painting is in good condition. Signed and dated lower right, label on the back "to the chief engineer Louis David in memory of our shared navigation aboard the Tiberias" May 1940.
Please note: small accident on the hull of the boat (see red arrow), some dirt and wear from time, see photos.
* The Tibériade: launched in 1909 in Newcastle on Tyne by W. Dobson & Cie under the name ROI LEOPOLD (Belgian). Wrecked in Gironde on October 21, 1915. Rebuilt after the war, it was acquired by the Schiaffino company in 1921. Became JACQUES SCHIAFFINO and operated the Algerian lines. Sold in 1929 to the Daher navigation company, which renamed it TIBERIADE. It was under this name that she was regularly chartered by Messageries Maritimes, from December 1935 to June 1937 to operate the Dunkirk-Marseille line via Le Havre. In 1940, it transported heavy equipment for the Weygand army to Syria, then remained in the French state fleet. It was requisitioned by the Germans in January 1943 under the Laval-Kauffman agreement. It was sunk in the port of Bastia on September 21, 1943 in an aerial bombardment in preparation for the Allied landing on the island.
