Jean Louis Paguenaud (1876-1952) French Seaplanes, Toulon. Painter Of The Navy And Air Force.

Magnificent gouache by Jean-Louis Paguenaud depicting French seaplanes, signed lower right. Size of the gouache alone 12.5x25cm and 15.5x28cm including frame. This is therefore a superb and quite rare maritime scene by Jean-Louis Paguenaud who is painting French seaplanes here, perhaps in Toulon, in any case certainly in the Mediterranean, I think between 1922 and 1930. His technique is as usual perfect, especially in gouache, the technique in which he excels the most. Painters who have painted airplanes or aeronautical scenes are quite rare, there is him, Marin-Marie, Maurice Busset and a few rare others... Jean-Louis Paguenaud, pseudonym of Jean-Philippe Paguenaud, born June 30, 1876 in Coussac-Bonneval (Haute-Vienne), and died May 31, 1952 in Limoges (Haute-Vienne), is a French painter. Jean-Philippe Paguenaud lived in Algiers for part of his childhood and discovered the sea there, before his father, a gendarme, was transferred to Limoges. There, he attended the school of decorative arts while working as a painter in a porcelain factory. He then studied with William Bouguereau and then joined the navy. He brought back from his travels gouaches and drawings that he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905. In 1914, his brother Joseph-Louis died in combat. To honor his memory, he decided to sign his works by adopting one of his brother's first names. In 1922, he was accepted into the competition for official painter of the Navy. He lived for a time on a barge in Paris, then returned to settle in Limoges where he died in 1952. He painted a large number of conflicts during the two world wars. His works are kept in Paris at the Musée de la Marine and in Bordeaux at the École de Santé Navale. This gouache is entirely original, in its period frame, never unframed, in very good condition. Work guaranteed authentic.