Louis Honoré GAMAIN (1803-1871), "La Marie de Fécamp: passage du Cap Horn par mer déchainée", oil on canvas, signed and dated 1860 lower right, old restoration in the sky, 50 x 60 cm. Gilded stuccoed wooden FRAME (some accidents and missing parts, outside dimensions: 63 x 73 cm, inside rabbet 52 x 61 cm), annotated "Marie de Fécamp, capitaine S. Monnier" and "Au Cap Horn 1860". Nb: Built in 1856 in Fécamp by the Capon & Brument shipyards, "La Marie" is one of the few long-haul sailing ships from Fécamp to have travelled the world. Most of them were destined for Newfoundland. Sénateur Monnier was its first captain. In 1857, on a voyage to Ceylon and then India, he brought back ethnographic figurines from Kerala and the Malabar coast, now preserved in the Musée des Pêcheries de Fécamp. This portrait of a ship in a perilous situation is typical of those commissioned by captains (unlike those intended for shipowners): in 1860, it depicts "La Marie de Fécamp" travelling to Valparaiso, rounding Cape Horn in stormy seas, revealing the skill and bravery of its captain.