Georges EVEILLARD (Nantes, 1879-1965) Concarneau : meal on the deck of the boat. Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard signed lower left. Height : Width : Provenance: - Purchase at the end of the 20th century from the Jean de Chatillon gallery (Saint-Malo). - Collection of a captain in the cap-hornier long-distance, country of Penthièvre. Georges Eveillard (1879-1965) was an artist in the army and exhibited in 1919 at the Salon des artistes mobilisés. He will be thereafter director of the school of the Fine arts and curator of the museum of the town of St-Nazaire.

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