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1870s French Impressionist Master Jules Achille Noël (1815-1881) Oil On Canvas. Fishermen's wives in Normandy. Museum Masterpiece. Impressionism. Fishermen's wives in a Northern France beach. Signed lower right corner. Artist Jules Achille Noël (1815-1881). Period 1870s. France. Jules Achille Noël, born Louis Assez Noël (24 February 1815, Quimper - 26 March 1881, Algiers) was a French landscape & maritime painter who worked primarily in Brittany & Normandy. His family originally came from Lorraine. Some sources say that he was born there in 1810. His father was a draftsman working on the canal being built from Nantes to Brest & gave him his first drawing lessons.He later studied at the "Académie de Peinture et de Dessin" (Académie Charioux) in Brest. Afterwards, he went to Paris to seek his fortune & came under the influence of his fellow Breton painter Pierre-Julien Gilbert. After four years of struggling to earn his living, he returned to Brittany to teach drawing in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, Lorient & Nantes. He had begun to participate in the Salon in 1840 and, in 1845, was one of several artists commissioned to provide engraved illustrations for a book on prisons by Maurice Alhoy entitled Les Bagnes: historie types, mystères...Eventually, his work attracted the attention of Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, who obtained him a position as a Professor of Design at the Lycée Henri-IV, where he would teach from 1847 until his retirement in 1879. Albert Lynch & Félix Buhot were among his best-known students there. During school vacations he would return to paint in Brittany. He was in ill-health at the time of his retirement, so he went to live with his daughter & her husband in Algeria & died there. His style was compared to Eugène Isabey & he won the praise of Baudelaire. The Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper presented a major retrospective of his works in 2005. The painting is sold in antique pre-owned condition. There are some scratches & signs of restorations in the front & back of the canvas. Sold as is. Size 16" x 9 1/2" (approximately). Price $1450 Please look at my back stock-there are many treasures waiting for a home! We have two warehouses, New York State & Europe. Our paintings can be shipped free of charge from one of the two warehouses upon availability. 1870S French Impressionist Master Jules Achille Noël | 1815-1881 Oil On Canvas. Fishermen's Wives in Normandy. Museum Masterpiece
