Hervé Mathé Goémonier Brittany

Jules Alfred Hervé-Mathé is a French painter, born February 8, 1868 in Saint-Calais-du-Désert and died March 3, 1953 in Mayenne. He was director of the School of Applied Arts in Le Mans. Jules Hervé-Mathé is the son of Léon Florent Hervé and Marie Luquet, married in Couptrain in 1856. He married on June 15, 1905 in Le Mans Berthe Marie Mathé. He lost his father in 1881. His mother then decided to return to the paternal roof with her three children in Langres. Jules Alfred Hervé continued his education there and attended the drawing school, which was excellently renowned. He was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin-Constant, Marcel Baschet and Albert Maignan. To finance his courses, he designed the fortifications of Langres for military engineering. He is a member in Paris, of the Salon of French artists since 1909. He directed the School of Applied Art in Le Mans from 1899, and this for 35 years. In 1914, he was mobilized as a draftsman on the front, he drew numerous war scenes under the shells (kept in Paris at the Musée de l'Armée). After the First World War, he intensified his production of landscapes and seascapes. He fell in love with the coasts of Brittany, performing seascapes, portraits of fishermen, showing the bustling ports of Cornwall, painting in a balanced palette. In 1920 he stayed on Ile-de-Bréhat. In 1922, he stayed in Perros-Guirec and Ploumanac'h, and he went to Brittany every year. From 1925, he went to Concarneau for four years. In 1927, he will paint the life of fishermen in Audierne. In 1930, he stayed in Douarnenez and Tréboul, then in Camaret the following year. He could no longer return to Brittany because of the Second World War. Public collections