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Raoul André Ulmann (1867-1941) "Moonlight on the Countryside"
A beautiful oil on canvas signed lower right depicting a moonlit landscape.
Dimensions without frame: 32 x 41 cm
Gilded wooden frame
Raoul André Ulmann was a French painter, born in Paris in 1867 and died in 1941.
Painted Breton and Dutch seascapes and views of Paris. From 1907, he exhibited landscapes at the Société nationale des beaux-arts. He also exhibited with the Société nouvelle de peintres et de sculpteurs de Paris, chaired after 1905 by Auguste Rodin, at exhibitions in Paris and the United States.
During his lifetime, the French State acquired several of his works, which were notably assigned to the Luxembourg Museum, the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne, the Chamber of Deputies, and the Élysée Palace.
He received the Puvis de Chavannes Prize in 1931.
The Musée d'Orsay holds several of his works:
Grande marée à Trébeurden
La Seine au Trocadéro
Le canal de la Bastille
Le pré de Biez
The Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper holds one of them: Marine bretonne.
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