An Oil On Canvas, Marine, Toulon By Gaston Roullet

Marine representing the Vielle Darse in Toulon (label on the back of the salon with its presentation number) 
Behind a seaside chapel study 

ROULLET Gaston or Marie Anatole Gaston

Born November 17, 1847, in Ars (Charente-Maritime). Died in 1925 in Paris. xtxe-xxe centuries. French.

Painter of landscapes, seascapes, draftsman, illustrator. Pupil of Jules Noël. H debuted at the Paris Salon in 1874. He was appointed official painter to the French Navy and made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1895.

As a correspondent for Le Monde illustre, he painted scenes from Africa, Oceania, Indochina and Canada, as well as numerous sites along the coasts of Brittany and Normandy.

bibliogr. Gérald Schurr: Les Petits Maîtres de la peinture - Valeur de demain, t. II, L'Amateur, Paris, 1982.

museums: gray: View of Nin-Binck - montréal: Bay of the Dead - nice: Fish Market in Chioggia - rochefort: Lifeboat Returns to Le Havre - Lagunes de
Long-Co - la rochelle: L'Entrée du cirque (TonkinJ - La Baie d'AIong - saintes : On the Red River - toulon: Toulon, view from Six-Fours.