Marius Gourdault, Oil On Canvas, The Port Of Doëlan

The bottom of the port of Doëlan (circa 1880) Discipline Painting Technique Oil / canvas Size of the canvas 33 x 46 cm Signed lower right Marius Gourdault born August 29, 1859 in the town of Châtellerault in the department of Vienne and died in April 13, 1935 in the city of Vanves in the Hauts-de-Seine. It is a French impressionist painter. He often placed his easel during the summer period around Doëlan or Pouldu, on the banks of the Laïta. Marius always worked "on the ground" in the open air, for this reason his paintings are generally of average size. With the help and encouragement of his teacher Paul Saïn, he exhibited for the first time, at the age of 21, at the Salon of painting and sculpture of the Palais des Champs-Élysées of 1880. Friend of Henry Moret, Jules Leray, Vital Lacaze, Paul Sain ... Marius Gourdault was spending his holidays in Doelan. He met Moret at the Salon of French Artists of 1880, they became good friends. They often shared hunting and fishing parties. Marius Gourdault entered the Ministry of Public Works as Professor of Drawing at the National School of Bridges and Roads rue des Saints Pères in Paris. he worked mainly in the services of maps and plans and graphical statistics. He lived at 26 Rue Raspail in Vanves, not far from the forest of Meudon and the banks of the Seine so often represented in his paintings. An exhibition was dedicated to him at Pouldu in 1993 by the association of friends of Marie Henry.