"Jean Gabriel Goulinat: Arid Landscape, Italy"
Arid landscape of Italy where the painter stayed several times. He endeavored to paint the aridity of this landscape without any picturesque to bring out the purity of the light ..... Very prolix landscape painter, he painted gouaches for the review l'Illustration (the region of Sète) and had in parallel a very important career as a restorer of paintings at the Louvre, in 1956 he repaired the Mona Lisa damaged by a stone thrown by a vandal. President of the Society of French Artists from 1958 to 1965... The work is signed lower right JG Goulinat Black lacquered frame