Rozier Jules French Painting 19th Boatman In Colombes In 1858 Oil Signed

ROZIER Jules (1821 / 1882)

Boatman in Colombes in 1858.

Oil on panel signed and dated 1858 lower left.

Collection frame from the Louis period XVI.

26x41 cm

Jules Rozier is a French painter, born in 1821. He spent his youthful years in Bertin's studio where he was introduced to painting, before leaving for that of Paul Delaroche. As he began to exhibit, he decided to break with the rhythm of his daily life and continued his work alone. He settled in the countryside, in the commune of Medan, where he lived for 10 years. 

In the rediscovered calm, he silently paints the restful landscapes of the Yvelines and the Oise. 

In 1877, he felt the pain of paralysis for the first time, which would kill him 6 years later. It is the following year in Granville, in Normandy in these landscapes where the sky and the sea merge, that he will spend the last happy days of his life. The more time passes, the more he is overtaken by illness and soon he only paints with his left hand, unable to move his right side. 

Jules Rozier was one of the most delicate landscape painters of his time, refusing the prose of romanticism. He is a discreet, shy painter, who loves the melody of his thoughts more than the din of the city. He was, as the daily L'Intransigeant describes it, "the painter of flowering orchards and riversides". 

He died in 1882, exhausted by illness. He will be remembered as an artist of rare sensitivity, always in search of the hidden sweetness of the landscapes available to him. 

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