étienne Bouillé (1858-1933)

Étienne Bouillé (1858-1933) Breton Port oil on panel, signed lower right 27.5 x 46 cm 44 x 63 cm French painter born April 12, 1858, in Burgundy, died June 5, 1933, in Perros-Guirec. With family responsibilities, he did not perform his military service in 1878. In Paris, he frequented the studios of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Luigi Loir.   He discovered Brittany in 1889 and was captivated by its landscapes and light. He settled in Guingamp in 1892, then in Perros-Guirec in 1914. He began taking photographs in 1892, but he "did not engage in a creative process; he did not perceive photography as an art, but more certainly as a working tool. This continued until the 1930s." He traveled throughout Brittany, photographing fishermen, seaweed harvesters, and farmers, and painting with realism. Étienne Bouillé was the father of the architect James Bouillé.   Public Collections Musée des Jacobins (Morlaix); The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Brest owns several of his works, including: Breton Estuary at Low Tide, In the Port of Camaret,