Barrier Gustave (1871-1953)

BARRIER Gustave (1871-1953)
Bunch of Flowers
Oil on card signed upper left
Old original frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim card : 56 X 46 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 56 cm

BARRIER Gustave (1871-1953)
French school 19th-20th Century
He was pupil of Gérôme, Vincent, Chevillard, Jules Lefèbvre and Tony Robert Fleury.
He was member of the French Artists Society and exposed starting from 1911. Honourable mention in 1926 and a silver medal in 1928.
He painted many canvas opposing the glare of the porcelains to the matity of the ivories. But he was also the painter of genre scenes of Louis XIII period, showing gentlemen and musketeers.

Bibliography:
- Les petits maîtres de la peinture G. Schurr
- Dictionary of the painters & sculptors E.Bénézit Vol I