Jacques Gay (born in

Voreppe Voreppe () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration).

Isère Isère ( , ; ; , ) is a landlocked Departments of France, department in the southeastern French Regions of France, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère (river), Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.

on 22 February 1851, and died in

Grenoble Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region ...

on 6 May 1925) was a French

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

Biography

Jacques Gay was a pupil of Firmin Gauthier and

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academic painting, academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living art ...

in Paris. He is a painter of

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, a

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and a

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, and painted many rural scenes. Friend of

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, he was part of the painters group in

Proveysieux Proveysieux () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Isère department The following is a list of the 512 communes in the French department of Isère. The communes cooperat ...

, with

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and

Théodore Ravanat Théodore Ravanat (born in Grenoble on 4 May 1812, died in Proveysieux on 21 September 1883) was a French landscape painter. Ravanat's work is mostly composed of Dauphiné landscapes. His paintings are generally among private collections of Grenob ...

. He also attended the École dauphinoise. He worked regularly at the Salon from 1878 to 1902. He painted

Dauphiné The Dauphiné ( , , ; or ; or ), formerly known in English as Dauphiny, is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was ...

villages, inhabitants, and interiors with a realistic style and with a warm sensitivity. His paintings can be seen at the

Museum of Grenoble The Museum of Grenoble () is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient ...

References

* Nathalie Servonnat-Favier, catalog of the exhibition ''Peintre(s) à Proveysieux'',

Musée de l'Ancien Évêché The Musée de l'Ancien Évêché (Museum of the Former Bishopric) is a departmental museum located in Grenoble, France and dedicated to the Isère heritage through the history of its Bishop's palace. Inaugurated in 1998, it is settled in the former ...

, Grenoble, 2003, () * ''Dictionnaire des petits Maitres de la Peinture (1820-1920)'',

Pierre Cabanne Pierre Cabanne (September 23, 1921, in Carcassonne – January 24, 2007, in Meudon) was a French art historian. He is best remembered for his extensive research and writings on the art history of painters Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, Van Gogh, and Pic ...

and Gerald Schurr, Amateur editions, 2003 ()

External links

Works by Jacques Gay, on ''Culture.gouv.fr''
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