Jean Louis Paguenaud Warship On A Rough Sea Marine Painter

Large oil on panel by Jean Louis Paguenaud signed lower right Military ship on a rough sea with the reflection of the sun on the sea excellent general condition format 88cm x 115cm without the frame and 95cm x 123cm total Jean Louis Paguenaud, born June 30, 1876 in Coussac-Bonneval (Haute-Vienne), and died May 31, 1952 in Limoges (Haute-Vienne), is a French painter. 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 gouaches and drawings from his travels, which 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. His works are preserved in Paris at the Musée de la Marine and in Bordeaux at the École de Santé Navale.