Project Description

Huile sur toile

Dimensions : 45,5 cm x 31 cm

Signed lower left : Gaston Roullet

Label Exhibition of the Society of Friends of the Arts of Seine et Oise – 36th Versailles Exhibition 1889 (located at the back of the canvas)

Located at the bottom left : rocky mountains canada

The canadian rockies (in English : Canadian Rockies) are the Canadian part of the Rocky Mountains. Long from 1 200 km, they start at the border between Canada and the United States and end in the plain of the Liard River in British Columbia. They straddle Alberta and British Columbia.

Roullet Gaston (1847-1925) – Rocky Mountains Canada

Born in Ars-en-Ré (Charente Maritime), Gaston Roullet was a pupil of Jules Noël, of whom he was a faithful disciple, and married his daughter in 1874. During his debut at the Salon des Artistes Français, he exhibits two watercolors Entrance to the port of Dieppe and A squall at sea.

He presents in 1882 an oil titled The entrance to the port of Fécamp. The painter practices oil or watercolor painting with the same ease., whom he treats with great freshness following his master.

The artist becomes painter of the Navy and the departments of the Colonies in 1885 and took part in the military campaigns of Tonkin in 1885 and 1886 with artistic mission given by the State to execute drawings.

He goes to Tunisia, in New Caledonia, in Senegal and Sudan at the end of the years 1880. He performs scenes from Africa, from Oceania, of Indochina and Canada as well as views of the Brittany and Normandy coasts by becoming a correspondent for the Illustrated World.

In February 1895, he exhibited on a personal basis at the Salon des Cent and was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur the same year.. Gaston Roullet is a member of the Society of French Artists and the Society of French Watercolourists..

He received a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and during the Lyon Exhibition in 1894.

He is the father of the playwright and theater and cinema director Jacques Roullet. (1878-1946) and the uncle of the painter Marie-Thérèse Dethan-Roullet (1870-1945).

the 2 December 1925, he dies at his home in the 16^e district of Paris, and, is buried in the cemetery of Montmartre (28^e division).

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