Seaside By Jean-antoine-armand Vergeaud

Seaside by Jean-Antoine-Armand Vergeaud surely a landscape of Charentais, oil on canvas signed lower right format with the frame 72cm x 63cm. Jean Antoine Armand Vergeaud, more simply called Armand Vergeaud, born August 3, 1876 in Angoulême and died October 5, 1949 in Tunis, is a French orientalist painter. Vergeaud, originally from the town of Angoulême in Charente, was a student of Gustave Moreau, Fernand Cormon and François Flameng at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He moved to Tunis in 1912. In 1927, he was appointed director of the School of Fine Arts in Tunis, a position he held until his death in 1949, having among others for students Aly Ben Salem , Yahia Turki, Edmond Küss, Azouz Berraïs, Auguste Durel, Geneviève Gavrel, Abdelaziz Gorgi, Frida Uzan or Natacha Markoff. He exhibited his paintings at the Salon of French Artists in Paris. In 1932, he was decorated with the Legion of Honor. He marries Eva Peyronnet, daughter of the Charente sculptor Émile Peyronnet, whom he knew during his stays in Charente, notably in his Angoumois country.