Roger Jourdain - View Of Andresy - Bank Of The Seine - Impressionist - 1887 - Oil On Panel

Roger Jourdain (1845-1918) Oil On Impressionist Panel representing the banks of the Seine at dawn. Signed, dated June 3, 1887, located in Andresy and dedicated "to my friend Ducasse" Very good condition, a small spot in the sky, see the photos. Dimensions of the frame: 44.5 x 58.5 cm Dimensions of the panel: 26.5 x 41 cm Roger Jourdain entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a student of Alexandre Cabanel. He began his career at the Salon of 1869. From then on, he regularly exhibited landscapes and seascapes there, in Normandy, on the banks of the Seine or even the Thames, in Cookham. He also performs genre scenes. Around 1876, he had a private mansion built near Parc Monceau. He sold it in 1878 to the painter Guillaume Dubufe. The hotel becomes the Jean-Jacques Henner national museum. For the record, Roger Jourdain's wife, Henriette Marie Dubois de Moulignon, is one of the models for the painters John Singer Sargent, Giovanni Boldini and Albert Besnard. The painter is also a politician, he served as mayor of Rueil-Malmaison from 1900 to 1906. He donated a certain number of paintings and landscape studies to the Louviers museum. The Portrait of Madame Jourdain can be seen at the Musée d'Orsay.