On The Banks Of The Canal In Bruges (?), Oil On Panel By Payret-dortail

Louis Gaston Eugène Payret-Dortail was born on August 24, 1878, to a father who was a merchant and hardware dealer in Lisieux; he was the younger brother of Maurice Payret-Dortail, an architect, and the grandson, through his mother, of Jules Doesnard (1826-1911), a Norman painter and photographer, founder in 1860 of the Lisieux drawing school. During his law studies in Paris, which he abandoned, Louis presented his painting works to Gustave Moreau around 1895, who accepted him as a private candidate in his studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited paintings at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1898 until 1905, a society of which he became a member in 1901. After the war, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne; In 1922, he exhibited watercolors and views of Auvers-sur-Oise at Barbazanges-Hodebert (Paris). In March 1926, he exhibited drawings at the Tuileries salon. During these years, he produced patterned decorations for the Sèvres factory. Our work is signed at the bottom right: Payret-Dortail.