“fort La Latte In Plévenon” Hamonet Léon (1877 - 1953)

Léon Constant Jean Sébastien Hamonet, born on December 13, 1877 in Erquy and died on February 12, 1953 in Rennes. Born to a sea captain father, Léon Hamonet grew up in the city of Bourse in Erquy. In 1889, his family moved to Bordeaux, where he studied at the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools Jean-Baptiste de La Salle in 1892, where he won first prize in ornamental drawing. He chose to enroll at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts, and studied with the painter Alfred Smith. He traveled the moors and shores of the Emerald Coast and immortalized these Breton landscapes with great sensitivity. His talent as a watercolorist did not prevent him from also working with oil painting. He exhibits regularly in the Galleries of Dinan, Rennes, Saint Brieuc. Watercolor signed lower right, titled “Le Fort La Latte” and located in Plévenon in Brittany. By enlarging you will see some light spots and the paper a little sunned (yellowed) with time. Format at sight: 26.5 x 34 cm with original frame in the state! : 29.5 x 37.5 cm