Étienne Bouille (1858-1933)
Seaweed collectors
oil on panel signed lower right
27x45.5cm
important Original frame in waxed oak and gilded wood
54x72.5cm
Beautiful original condition
Condition report and technical photographs on request.
French painter born April 12, 1858 in Burgundy, died June 5, 1933 in Perros-Guirec. Responsible for his family, he did not perform his military service in 1878. In Paris, he attended the workshops of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Luigi Loir.
He discovered Brittany in 1889 and was won over by its landscapes and its light. He settled in Guingamp in 1892, then in Perros-Guirec in 1914. He began photographing in 1892, but he "does not follow a creative approach, he does not perceive photography as an art, but more certainly as a work tool. Until the thirties. He traveled across Brittany, photographing fishermen, seaweed fishermen, farmers and painting with realism.
Etienne Bouillé is the father of the architect James Bouillé.
Public collections
Jacobins Museum (Morlaix);
The Brest Museum of Fine Arts has several works such as:
Breton estuary at low tide,
In the port of Camaret,
