Julien Gustave Gagliardini (1846-1927) "l'étang De Berre" Oil/canvas Signed/titled 73x54 Cms

Julien Gustave GAGLIARDINI (Mulhouse 1846 - Paris 1927) "L'étang de Berre" Oil on canvas signed lower right Titled on the back on the stretcher L: 73 cms H: 54 cms Beautiful framing Biography Gagliardini was first a student of the painter Claude Soulary, then he entered the studio of Léon Cogniet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris? He then turned to figure painting. He began at the Salon of 1869 with portraits and genre scenes. He abandoned historical subjects in favor of the landscape to which he devoted himself from the 1880s, representing above all sites in Auvergne and the South, his favorite subjects until the end of his life. It benefits from state purchases (Coup de midi, Provence 1880, Plein midi, Auvergne 1891, À Venise 1913) and obtains a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1893. Public collections Twilight, woman in a meadow at dusk, Evreux Museum Landscape, Marseille Fine Arts Museum The merchant quay in Toulon , Museum of Modern Art, Le Havre Village on the shores of the Mediterranean, Gassendi Museum, Digne-les-Bains