Louise Thuillier (1831-1917)

Louise THUILLIER (1831-1917). Small fishermen in the vicinity of Cherbourg. Oil on paper mounted on canvas. Signed and located lower right. 38 x 55 cm. Daughter of the painter Pierre Thuillier (1799-1858), She was a pupil of Louis Etienne Watelet and Théodore Gudin. Following in her father's footsteps, we owe her many landscapes and scenes from North Africa, then later landscapes made in Brittany and in the vicinity of Cherbourg where she resides from 1847. She exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1847 and there obtained a third class medal. Many of the artist's works are kept in public collections mainly at the Cherbourg museum, but also: Crozatier Museum, Le Puy-en-Velay Museum of Art and Archeology, Senlis Museum of Fine Arts and David- gallery d 'Angers, Angers Museum of Toulon,