Jean DELPECH (1916-1988) School of Fine Arts of Indochina (from 1934 to 1935). Prix de Rome 1948. Shortened view of Hanoi on the banks of the Red River. India ink, watercolor and colored pencils, signed below. Size: 30,5x40 cm (at sight). French naval painter, stamp designer, engraver and illustrator, Jean Delpech lived until 1935 in Indochina, where his father was an architect. Provenance: Bought by a magistrate in Hanoi in the 1930s. In the family by descent.

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