Alfred Casile (1848-1909) Mediterranean Edge.

Alfred Casile (1848-1909) edge of the Mediterranean. Oil on canvas signed lower right A. Casile Frame dimensions L 46cm H 32, frame 53.5cm H 38cm. Alfred Casile was born in Marseille in 1848. After studying at the Beaux Arts in his hometown, he went to Paris to complete his apprenticeship with Antoine Guillemet. The master recommends Casile to Boudin and Jongkind, who will make him discover Honfleur, and a new way of painting. Back in Marseille, he continues to see the Mediterranean, in a gray and diaphanous range, sometimes foggy, far from the dazzling of his Provencal contemporaries. Casile focuses on making the "impression" of the motif, the sensation, the atmosphere of a changing nature, with a subtle touch.