Henry Bouvet 1859-1945. The Port Of Marseilles.

Henri Marius Camille Bouvet, known as Henry Bouvet was born in Marseille in 1859 and died in Paris in 1945.
He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon from the age of 19, a student of Jean-Baptiste Poncet and Michel Dumas. He exhibited at the Salons of Lyon
It was in Paris that he worked with Eugène Carrière and Alfred Roll. Very quickly he then participated in the salons of French artists and became a member in 1897.
He was present at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 and received a bronze medal. He also exhibited at several exhibitions abroad, New York, Tokyo, Buenos Aires...

He paints many marines and likes to exercise his sensitivity to the effects of light, his style is impressionist. He also likes more intimate scenes, bourgeois insiders and portraits.

Museums: Belle-Ile, Nantes,

Our painting bears on the back a label of a sale made in New York in the 1950s.