Jean Roque
Jean Roque | |
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 Portrait of Roque by Theophile Steinlen on 30 August 1915 | |
| Born | 8 January 1880 Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
| Died | 6 December 1925 (aged 45) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Painter |
Jean Roque (1880–1925) was a French painter.
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Jean Roque was born on 8 January 1880 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.[1][2] He studied painting in Paris under the tutelage of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) and Humbert.[2]
Career[edit]
He became a professional painter.[3] Early on in his career, he rejected the realism of Jean-Léon Gérôme, his teacher, and decided to focus on painting landscapes, especially the ones of Provence.[1]
Most of his paintings were done from 1906 to 1924. In 1924, he became Peintre de la Marine.
Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923) painted his portrait in 1915.
Death[edit]
He died on 6 December 1925 in Paris.[1] He was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Pierre in Marseille.
Paintings[edit]
- Rochers en mer (1906–1908)
- Élégante sur la terrasse (1906–1908)
- Les Roches rouges à Agay (1908)
- Femme assise (1910)
- Piémontaise (1908–1910)
- Port de pêche animé (1911)
- Paysage provençal (1911)
- Village de pêcheur, bord de mer
- Le Retour (1913)
- Retour de pêche (1913)
- Le Port de Marseille (1914)
- Bateaux à quai (1915)
- Barque et pêcheurs au port (1919)
- Les Pêcheurs (1919)
- L'Intérieur du port de Marseille (1920)
- Le Port de Marseille, le bassin de la Joliette
- Bateaux dans le vieux port (1920)
- Cargo dans le port de Marseille
- Le Vieux port de Marseille et Notre-Dame de la Garde (1924)
Gallery[edit]
Jean Roque
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Le port de Marseille -
Le vieux port et Notre Dame de la Garde -
Elegante sur la terrasse -
Le retour
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Gérald Schurr, 1820–1920, les petits maîtres de la peinture: valeur de demain, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1982, p. 61 [1]
- ^ a b Pierre Guiral, Félix Reynaud, Les Marseillais dans l'histoire, Privat, 1988, p. 215 [2]
- ^ Eric Storm, The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890–1939, Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2011, p. 24 [3]
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