Gustave Fraipont Original Painting Signed C1902 Market Basilica Of Our Lady Of Folgoët Finistère

Original painting by Gustave FRAIPONT. Market scene at the foot of the Notre‑Dame du Folgoët basilica (Finistère). Oil on panel. 73 x 50cm. Signed lower right: "G. Fraipont". Varnish yellowed. Some small stains in the sky and wear on the edges. Fine vertical slit in the upper part. Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923) was a French illustrator, poster designer and painter. Originally from Belgium, he was born in Brussels and was a pupil of Heindrickx and H. de Hem. In 1903, he exhibited two Breton works at the Salon of French Artists: a painting entitled "A Sunday in Brittany (Finistère)" and a watercolor, "At Landernauviau". In 1905, he was appointed Official Painter of the Navy. Gustave Fraipont, who lived at 95, rue de Vaugirard, was Father Georges Fraipont (1873-1912, painter trained by Jean-Léon Gérôme and Luc-Olivier Merson). Le Folgoët is a town in northern Finistère. Its Notre-Dame basilica was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. It is part of the first list of Historic Monuments of 1840. Our painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1902 (see Explanation of works of painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving and lithography by living artists exhibited at the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, avenue Alexandre III, May 1, 1902, Paris, Paul Dupont, 1902, page 66, n° 665).