Morocco Koutoubia Marrakech By Henri Voisin

Morocco Koutoubia Marrakech by Henri Voisin oil on panel signed lower left. Henri Léon Voisin, born August 8, 1861 in Saint-Mandé and died December 4, 1945 in Château-la-Vallière, is a painter and etcher but also a French engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Painter and etcher, he studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts1 where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Hubert Ponscarme. He discovered Mont-Saint-Michel in 1885 and dedicated 300 works to it. He founded the association Les Amis du Mont Saint-Michel in 1911 with Paul Deschanel and was its general secretary for 27 years. The association was recognized as being of public utility in 1918. He was knighted in the Legion of Honor in 1938. He retired to Indre-et-Loire during the Second World War and died there. A retrospective was dedicated to him at the Museum of Art and History of Avranches in 2012.