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Blatt-Maße: ca. 46 x 36,5 cm. Bleistift-Zeichnung auf Papier. -- gut erhalten || Pencil drawing on paper. -- in very good condition || || Gaston de Latenay was a French painter, lithographer and etcher. He was born in Toulouse and studied briefly at the Academie Julian, Paris, but was mostly self-taught. During his career, de Latenay stood apart from all movements and schools of artistic thought to develop his own poetic vision of nature. He combined japanese influences with a lyricism. This element is clearly evident his early original etchings and marine compositions. Gaston de Latenays art won awards at the Universal Expositions of 1886, 1889 and 1900. He was a member of both the Societe des Artistes Francais and the Societe des Aquarellistes Francais. Many of his fine landscapes and coastal views depicted scenes in Brittany, Artois and Belgium. One contemporary scholar wrote of his etchings, "He is a master in expressing the melancholy aspect of a beautiful park on a golden autum |