Landscape Signed Théophile Henri Décanis

Painting painted on canvas representing a landscape in Provence animated by characters signed Théophile Henri Décanis is a French painter born in 1848 in Marseille where he died on February 10, 1917. Marseille school Théophile Henri Décanis is a student and friend of Jean-Baptiste Olive (1848 -1936)2. He painted the landscapes of Provence for twenty years. In 1900, he participated in the decoration of the large room of the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris for which he painted views of Cannes and Menton, paintings currently unlocated replaced in 1905 by the canvas by Albert Maignan, The Orange Theater. The City of Marseille gave its name to one of its streets. DIgne-les-Bains, Gassendi museum: View of Allauch. Mâcon, Ursulines museum: Thyme flowering in the plains of Arbois, Provence, Salon of French artists of 1886, oil on canvas, 170 × 211 cm. Marseille, Museum of Fine Arts: The Old Mill of Regnac, Salon of 1884, oil on canvas, 149 × 212 cm; Landscape, oil on canvas, 65 × 100 cm. Narbonne, Museum of Art and History: Summer morning in Provence, Salon of 1903, oil on canvas. Paris, Gare de Lyon, Le Train bleu, large room: Cannes, 1900, oil on mounted canvas, current location unknown;