HERVE Jules René Impressionist Painting XXth The bigotes at the church in Langres Oil on panel Signed

HERVE Jules René (1887/1981)
The bigots at the church in Langres.
Oil on panel, signed lower left.
46x38 cm
Museums: Annecy, Calais, Casablanca, Chicago, Dijon, Langres, Luxeuil-Les-Bains, Montreal, New York, Paris, Saint-Etienne, Tourcoing, Troyes. Literature: Bénézit - Dictionary of the small masters of painting by Gérald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne - "Jules rené Hervé an enchanting master of 20th century painting" by Bernard Masson - "Le haut du pavé de Langres" by Gérard Gueniot - The painter and the animal in France in the 19th century by Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier - 
Jules René HERVE, Born in Langres (Haute-Marne) in 1887, Died in Langres in 1981.
Painter of typical scenes, figures, portraits, landscapes. Student of Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler, Jules René Hervé moved to Paris and began to exhibit at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1910, Jules René Hervé received a silver medal there in 1914 and a gold medal in 1925. Then Jules René Hervé divides his life between Paris and his hometown of which he paints, with a light brush, expert in small bright splinters on grays or ochres skilfully distributed, the events humble and picturesque, the portraits of his austere society with a monotonous and muffled existence - But Jules René Hervé knows just as well how to restore the lively atmosphere of Parisian life and its monuments or the dancers in the foyer of the Opera - Of his finely observed compositions emanate from delicate feelings - Appreciated by French and foreign amateurs, Jules René Hervé "devoted himself to his art throughout his life - Jules René Hervé is considered" the last of the impressionists "
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