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The Marie-Vigilante schooner

A naïve painting of a sailboat on a calm sea. The schooner’s hold is black, its sails are white. The sea is blue with a greyish sky.

The Marie-Vigilante schooner, no date (between 1970 and 1998)

Painting by Captain J.A.Z. Desgagnés

Source: collection of the Musée maritime de Charlevoix, J.A.Z. Desgagnés collection

Coastal navigation was captain J.A.Z. Desgagnés’ whole life. When he retired in the early ’70s, for want of navigating, he started to paint and depict the schooners of bygone days. These reproductions, done in a naïve style using mixed media, are mostly of the sail-powered schooners the captain remembered from his youth.