Edouard Pannetier (1884-1965) Notre Dame

Edouard Pannetier (1884-1965) Notre Dame, pastel, 31 x 22.5 cm, signed lower left.
Small traces in the corners.

Edouard-Emmanuel-Charles Pannetier, Provençal painter and orientalist, was born on November 6, 1884 in Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne). Fatherless, former English teacher, he began his artistic studies at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown and then at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Trained as a drawing teacher, he worked for a few years in Algeria at the Lamoricière high school in Oran between 1910 and 1920. Back in France, he worked as a drawing teacher at the Aix-en-Provence high school around 1930. He painted numerous landscapes and genre scenes from Algeria and Provence. For the rest, he illustrated several literary works, highlighting the novel “Atala” by Chateaubriand in its 1946 edition. He died in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris, on October 14, 1965, at the age of 80 year.