Get a Jourdan Certificate of Authenticity for your painting (COA) for your Jourdan drawing.

For all your Jourdan artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Jourdan Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Jourdan painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Jourdan and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Jourdan experts and Jourdan certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Jourdan artworks.

Our Jourdan paintings and drawings authentications are accepted and respected worldwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Jourdan certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Jourdan painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Jourdan paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Jourdan collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Emile Jourdan art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Emile Jourdan or we will sell it for you.

Jourdan was a student and friend of Gaugin, and his style is a direct fusion of his master’s influence and Oriental technique. In his time, Jourdan was called a “painter of light.” His paintings starkly contrasted that of his contemporaries because he painted pastoral scenes of the Brittany landscape with a Japanese flair. Jourdan was also known for the elimination of detail in his paintings; an almost stripped-down style that was both minimalist and aesthetically pleasing.

In 1883, Jourdan traveled to Algeria, and also to Finland in 1895. Towards the turn of the century, Jourdan began to paint with a more Impressionistic hand.

He lived a bohemian lifestyle, as so many other painters of his time did, and traveled often, living in a number of places. Sadly, his bohemian lifestyle left him overcome by poverty and alcoholism and he died alone and abandoned in a retirement home in Quimperle.

Although his name today does not ring as familiar as his friend and teacher Gaugin, Jourdan left a distinct mark in art history. Today his work is housed all over France, and a street in the Brittany region in Vannes is even named in his honor. Still wondering about a curious Oriental-inspired French landscape in your home? It may be by Emile Jourdan…contact us to find out.