Henri Callot (1875-1956) Summer Afternoon In The Park. Ile d'Yeu, Rigaud, Bertrand, Marine, Paris

3rd work by Henri Callot (soon a 4th representing Port Joinville), this is a gouache representing a young woman in a park in summer under jets of water, signed lower right. Format of the gouache alone without frame 31x23cm and 43x34cm frame included. This is therefore a new gouache by Henri Callot who paints here a magnificent composition representing a young woman sitting on a bench in a shaded park in summer, where we see jets of water. As usual the drawing is very careful, as is the coloring with here soft greens, yellow, brown, gray, green, orange-red... It could be a Parisian park, but why not also a particular park on the island of Yeu.... Gouaches are an important part of Callot's production, he mastered them sublimely. Come on, my 2 other works already on sale, a 1st gouache representing the wild coast on the island of Yeu and I also offer a superb engraving representing fishing boats at low tide, very probably on the island of Yeu too and therefore soon the port Joinville animated a 2nd engraving; Eugène Henri Callot, born December 20, 1875 in La Rochelle, and died December 22, 1956 in Paris 14th, is a French painter and fencer Member of an old Rochelle family, Henri Callot is the son of Ernest Callot (de) (1840-1912), director of an insurance company and founding member of the International Olympic Committee. He is also the great-grandson of Pierre Simon Callot, mayor of La Rochelle between 1830 and 1834, and grandson of Eugène Dor, mayor between 1879 and 1883. His elder brother Maurice (1873-1910), a naval lieutenant and commander of the submarine Pluviôse, tragically disappeared at sea off the coast of Calais during a diving exercise. His younger brother Tony (1880-1925), a civil mining engineer, was director of the Société Maritime Nationale. He married Joséphine Vincent in 1934. In 1896, he traveled to Athens aboard the ocean liner Sénégal to participate in the foil events at the first modern Olympic Games. He won the silver medal, beaten by his compatriot Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, after emerging from his group undefeated against the Greek fencers. A student of Jules Lefebvre and Robert-Fleury, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, of which he was a member from 1898, and won a gold medal in 1920, the year he was awarded a hors-competition prize. In 1929, he exhibited the canvases La vague and Port Joinville, les voiles, which were noted. His paintings mainly depict landscapes of Brittany, ports, rivers, fishing boats, etc. Knight of the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, he died in 1956 in Paris. He then lived on rue de Lévis in the 17th arrondissement. This gouache is in perfect condition, delivered framed in a small round gilded baguette on which a second flat frame with a gray patina was then added, but this can be removed without problem, if desired. Much prettier in reality than in the photo because the glass causes reflections. Work guaranteed authentic