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Lucien LAURENT-GESLL
Paris, 1860 – Paris, 1944
View of the Bay of Menton
Oil on canvas
81 x 100 cm
Signed lower right "Laurent Gsell"
Lucien Laurent-Gsell was the son and student of Caspar Gsell. He also studied in Alexandre Cabanel's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts before exhibiting in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1882 and 1908.
Painter and illustrator (of children's books) Lucien Laurent-Gsell is best known for his landscapes, often related to the sea. He was appointed Official Painter of the Navy in 1911.
Laurent-Gsell painted various French regions, but especially the Dieppe region and the Pays de Caux, as well as Provence and the French Riviera, notably Menton, which is the subject of our painting.
Painted with an impressionist style and beautiful vivid colors, our painting is a beautiful and large view of the Bay of Menton with many details and beautiful light. A traveling painter, Laurent-Gsell also painted North Africa, Mali, and Argentina.
Two of his paintings are in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay (a Reclining Nude Woman and Different Figures in a Laboratory with Pasteur - he was the nephew of Louis Pasteur)
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