Jean Ferlet (1889-1957). Saône, Quai Rambaud In Lyon. Oil On Canvas.

Jean FERLET (1889-1957)
La Saône, quai Rambaud in Lyon
Oil on canvas, signed lower right and titled on the back
Canvas: 32.5 x 41 cm
Frame: 42.5 x 51.5 cm

Jean FERLET was born on February 13, 1889 in Taluyers in the hills of Lyonnais. Leaving the countryside, Ferlet settled in Lyon on the left bank of the Rhône and worked various small jobs from grocer's boy to shirt maker. Although he seemed to approach painting as an autodidact and in isolation, he exhibited almost every year between 1947 and 1956 at the salon of the Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts and twice at the Salon d'Automne. His painting offers moving urban views with, like Louis Chapuy, a predilection for the old working-class neighborhoods of Lyon such as La Guillotière. Ferlet takes a tender and modest look at his environment, whose simple and hard-working life is brightened by the presence of small bistros and sometimes that of a few street acrobats. His very soft palette with subtle nuances delivers a touch of poetry marked by nostalgia for a popular world that is living its last moments. At the same time, Ferlet remains fascinated by his native countryside and the beauty of the landscapes of the Monts du Lyonnais, whose changes of light he knows how to magnify according to the hours and seasons and which he almost systematically represents without characters, like a lost paradise. His delicate and unique work, almost unpublished, deserves to be considered a rediscovery.

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