Seaside - Watercolor Titled "a Wave At Carqueiranne" Signed Antoine Barbier

Watercolor on paper, in its charming original frame, titled on the back "A Wave at Carqueiranne." Dated on the back November 1938. Signed lower right Antoine Barbier (1859-1948). Carqueiranne is a French commune located in the Var department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Dimensions: 18 x 27 cm (sight size), 23 x 32.5 cm (framed).

This work was exhibited at the E. Pouillé-Lecoultre Gallery in Lyon (label on the back).

Antoine Barbier, born May 10, 1859, in Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay and died February 8, 1948, in Lyon, was a French watercolorist and Orientalist painter. In 1925, he won a silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Français, of which he was a member, and was subsequently awarded a prize outside the competition. Awarded the Grand Prix of the Lyon Society of Fine Arts and a medal of honor, he became president of the Lyon section of the Friendly Society of French Painters and Sculptors. A member of the Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Letters of Lyon, he exhibited, among other places, at the Winter Salon, the Salon of French Landscape Painters, in Lyon, Algiers, Geneva, Saint-Étienne, etc. His works are held in the Carnavalet Museum, in Lyon, Bern, Brussels, Oxford, Algiers, Cairo, etc. He also decorated the Roanne Chamber of Commerce. There is a Rue Antoine Barbier in Lyon.