"Roger Joseph Jourdain (1845-1918) "jouant Au Golf""
Roger Joseph Jourdain (Louviers 1845 - Paris 1918)
Title: Jouant au golf
Watercolor on paper
Size cm 34 x 55
Size with frame cm. 55 x75
Signed at the bottom left
Biography:
Born in Louviers in 1845, a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel and Isidore Pils at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he debuted at the Salon in 1869. He undertook a journey to Spain, where he made copies of the works of Velasquez. At the famous Paris salon of his stepsister, Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux, Jourdain met numerous artists, writers, and composers, including John Singer Sargent, Henri Regnault, Marcel Proust, Colette, Gabriel Fauré, and Claude Debussy. He died in Paris in 1918.
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