Henri Wirth Beautiful Island At Sea

View of Belle Ile en Mer by Henri Wirth painted oil on a wood panel. The painting is signed lower right. The panel alone measures 23.7 x 14 cm and is framed in a frame from the 1950s. Unfortunately the panel has split in two and the paint has a lack at sea level near the break. This one was very poorly glued. Henri Wirth, born in Paris in 1869, decided very quickly to paint. He returned to the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he was notably a pupil of Jean Léon Gérôme. He painted many interior decorations, notably for Alfred de Rothschild, the Maharaja of Kapurthala or the Universal Exhibition of 1937. A trip to Brittany decided him to devote himself to Breton landscapes and particularly the views of Belle île en Mer. He died in 1947 in Deuil la Barre.