Fernand Maillaud (1862-1948) "the Stop On The River Bank" (crozant School, Creuse)

Fernand Maillaud Crozant school post-impressionist interesting oil on panel representing the farmers' stop at the water's edge where you can see a fishing boat. Delivery 30 euros Fernand Maillaud made his debut in 1896 at the Salon des artistes français. He regularly presented a work there each year until his death4. He was later awarded a gold medal at the same Salon. He accompanied the Vasson couple to Italy in 1899 and painted many landscapes there, notably in Venice. In 1900, the painter received an honorable mention at the Salon des artistes français. The painter settled at 3, rue de l'Estrapade, where he stayed until his death. He undertook the complete creation of original furniture (carved furniture, tapestries, carpets). From 1895 to 1902, Fernand Maillaud spent the summer in Fresselines, near Crozant. He became friends with Maurice Rollinat and met Allan Österlind, Jean Geffroy, Armand Dayot, Lucien Descaves and the young Bernard Naudin. He found in Rollinat a valuable ally in his fight for the recognition of the authenticity of the rural world. For Maillaud, this was the era of church interiors, funeral processions, holy families and peasants bent under bundles of wood5. Thanks to Rollinat's connections, Maillaud entered the entourage of Ferdinand Humbert, an influential painter of the time. The master, "enthusiastic about Maillaud's good-natured modernism and reassured by his respectable subjects5", obtained state commissions for him. In 1902, and until 1907, Fernand Maillaud settled in the Vallée Noire, in Verneuil-sur-Igneraie, near Nohant, for the summer. He stayed in the villa called "Epingués"; he painted landscapes and embroidered tapestries. He frequented Gabriel Nigond, the Abbé Émile Jacob and also Hugues Lapaire, Joseph Ageorges, René Pradère, Raymond Christoflour, Gabrielle Sand6, granddaughter of George Sand. The tapestries executed by Fernande Maillaud, exhibited at the Salon des artistes français and the Salon d'automne, were a great success, as were the paintings of Fernand Maillaud. In this country, close but different from the Creuse valley, Fernand Maillaud painted less landscapes, but rather livestock fairs, Sunday markets, the illuminated exit of communicants5. He traveled to Spain during the year 1904. In 1913, Fernand Maillaud discovered Corrèze; he returned there every summer until 1935