On the dock
oil on canvas signed lower left
54x81cm
titled on the back “on the quay at Tr??? (most likely Tréboul)
important Original frame in waxed beech and gilded wood
96x122cm
restorations and usual cracks.
French painter born April 12, 1858 in Burgundy, died June 5, 1933 in Perros-Guirec. Responsible for his family, he did not perform his military service in 1878. In Paris, he attended the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Luigi Loir.
He discovered Brittany in 1889 and was won over by its landscapes and its light. He settled in Guingamp in 1892, then in Perros-Guirec in 1914. He began photographing in 1892, but he "does not follow a creative approach, he does not perceive photography as an art, but more certainly as a work tool. Until the thirties. He traveled across Brittany, photographing fishermen, seaweed fishermen, farmers and painting with realism.
Etienne Bouillé is the father of the architect James Bouillé.
Public collections
Jacobins Museum (Morlaix);
The Brest Museum of Fine Arts has several works such as:
Breton estuary at low tide,
In the port of Camaret,