Trianon - Versailles

A beautiful oil on cardboard painting signed by Edmond Lachenal (1855-1948), inscribed and dated 1930, depicting a view of the Grand Trianon at Versailles. Original frame. Dimensions: 44 x 36.5 cm. Edmond Lachenal was a French ceramist, born in Paris in 1855. Workshop manager for Théodore Deck in the 1870s, he established his own workshop in 1881 in Malakoff, then in Châtillon, before settling in Paris on the rue de Verneuil. He participated in the Universal Exhibition of 1889 (where he won a gold medal) and then in that of 1900, the year he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. He then decided to cease his work as a ceramicist and passed his workshop on to his son Raoul in 1904. He embarked on a career in acting alongside his friend Sarah Bernhardt and simultaneously took up painting and pastels. In the 1920s and 1930s, he lived in Versailles. It is from this period that our oil painting depicting Trianon dates. He died in Paris in 1948.