"bathing Beauties In A Sea Gorge" By Lucien Laurent - Gsell (french, 1860- 1944)

This colorfully impressionist work was executed at the turn of the 20th century by the famous French painter of Swiss origin Lucien Laurent-Gsell (1860 in Paris - 1944).
Laurent-Gsell comes from a family of artists. His father was the glass painter Gaspard Gsell, who ran the Laurent & Gsell company in Montmartre, his grandfather was the lithographer Jakob Laurenz Gsell. The glass and church painter Albert Gsell was his brother, and Laurent-Gsell received his early artistic instruction from his father. With her support, he was then accepted at the École des Beaux-Arts and was taught by Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, among others. At the age of 84, Lucien Laurent-Gsell dies in Paris, where he also found his last resting place.
Distinctions: 1911 Nomination to the Official Painter of the Navy.Works of the artist: In OilThe Grand tam-tam of July 14 in Sanga (Sudan).Animation on the beach of Dieppe.The Atelier Cabanel. 1885.

Literature: Emmanuel Bénézit (eds.): Critical and documentary dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers of all times and all countries, vol. 8th new edition Greend, Paris 1999.
Inscriptions: signed and dated 1906
Material: oil on canvas, framed.
Dimensions: without frame 72.5 x 59 cm; framed 86 x 73.5 cm.
Condition: very good condition, professionally cleaned and relined.