Painting By Amédée Baudit (1890–): Before The Storm At Lacanau, 1883

Amédée Baudit came from a Protestant family that settled in Switzerland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His family lived near the former theater on Place-Neuve.

In 1841–1842, he joined the studio of the Swiss landscape painter François Diday. François Diday had trained the painter Alexandre Calame beginning in 1829. Both painters were famous for their paintings of the Alps, for which they received awards.

Thanks to a modest inheritance, he left Geneva for Paris, where he trained at the new school of painting. He exhibited his first paintings in Paris in 1852, depicting Mont Blanc and the Alps, Views from the Jura, Sunset^[2]. In 1853, he exhibited paintings of French landscapes: The Approaching Storm; Memories of Auvergne, and Woodland Interior; Pyrenees^[3]. At the 1855 World’s Fair, he exhibited six paintings as a member of the Swiss School^[4].

In 1855, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the Society of Friends of the Arts in Bordeaux—an organization founded in 1851—two paintings: The Dunes of Armorica(Finistère) and A Pasture. He continued to submit paintings to exhibitions in Paris and Bordeaux until 1890. He exhibited at the Salon of the Society of Friends of the Arts in Pau in 1870.

• Reims Museum of Fine Arts, Cut Through a Wood, oil on canvas, 32.8 x 46.5 cm ^[5]

• Cut Through a Wood, Reims Museum of Fine Arts

• Madame Annaly, born in Bordeaux, participated in the 1889 Salon.
• Jacques Henri Barennes, born in Bordeaux in 1852, and died in Castelnau-de-Médoc in 1923.
• Georges Blois.
• Raoul Brun.
• Julien Calvé, born in Lormont in 1851, died in Bordeaux in 1924.
• William Didier-Pouget, born in Toulouse.
• Jean-Pierre Héron.
• Louis de Portal, born in Paris.
• Alfred Smith^[6].