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Léon Carré, attr, Soldat im Hafen Depiction of a young soldier in parade uniform in front of a wall in the harbour, probably a motif from his native town of Granville in the Manche département in Normandy, finely glazed genre painting, oil on canvas, signed "LCarré" in ligature lower left and dated [18]94, uninterpreted inscription "AC 33" on painted stone to the right, minor craquelure, paint chipping, somewhat in need of restoration, framed, folded, dimensions approx. 32 x 25 cm. Artist information: actually Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré, also Leon Carre, French painter, draughtsman, graphic artist. Painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, commercial artist, stamp designer and illustrator (1878 Granville/Manche to 1942 Algiers), representative of the École d'Alger, trained as a decorator at the École des beaux-arts in Rennes in Brittany, moved to Paris in 1896 to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, here a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Luc-Olivier Merson, then freelance in Paris, 1904 and 1905 trips to Algiers, 1909-11 two-year scholarship for a stay at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, 1911 study trip to Spain and enthusiasm for the depiction of bullfights, after the First World War mainly as a commercial artist. In 1927 he created decorative paintings for the passenger ship "Île de France", in 1926-32 he created illustrations for a 12-volume edition of "One Thousand and One Nights", from 1900 he exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, from 1905 the Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1907 the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and 1911 the Salon d'Automne, 1936 appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour, active in Paris and from ca. 1939 in Algiers, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", AKL, Bénézit and Wikipedia.

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Léon Carré, attr, Soldat im Hafen Depiction of a young soldier in parade uniform in front of a wall in the harbour, probably a motif from his native town of Granville in the Manche département in Normandy, finely glazed genre painting, oil on canvas, signed "LCarré" in ligature lower left and dated [18]94, uninterpreted inscription "AC 33" on painted stone to the right, minor craquelure, paint chipping, somewhat in need of restoration, framed, folded, dimensions approx. 32 x 25 cm. Artist information: actually Léon Georges Jean-Baptiste Carré, also Leon Carre, French painter, draughtsman, graphic artist. Painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, commercial artist, stamp designer and illustrator (1878 Granville/Manche to 1942 Algiers), representative of the École d'Alger, trained as a decorator at the École des beaux-arts in Rennes in Brittany, moved to Paris in 1896 to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, here a pupil of Léon Bonnat and Luc-Olivier Merson, then freelance in Paris, 1904 and 1905 trips to Algiers, 1909-11 two-year scholarship for a stay at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, 1911 study trip to Spain and enthusiasm for the depiction of bullfights, after the First World War mainly as a commercial artist. In 1927 he created decorative paintings for the passenger ship "Île de France", in 1926-32 he created illustrations for a 12-volume edition of "One Thousand and One Nights", from 1900 he exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, from 1905 the Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1907 the Salon of the Société nationale des beaux-arts and 1911 the Salon d'Automne, 1936 appointed Knight of the Legion of Honour, active in Paris and from ca. 1939 in Algiers, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", AKL, Bénézit and Wikipedia.

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