Joseph Garibaldi (12 May 1863,

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- 6 May 1941, Marseille) was a French painter, specializing in

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s and coastal scenes.

Biography

His father, an employee of the

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distillery, was originally from Italy. Louis Prat, one of the firm's owners, noticed that Joseph had artistic talent and convinced his father to let him be enrolled at the . A visit from the famous artist, Antoine Vollon, was decisive. Under his influence and advice, Garibaldi held his first exhibit at the

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. They also became close friends, and he would be a trusted assistant during Vollon's final illness. He would exhibit regularly at the Salon from 1884 to 1914; receiving a second-class medal in 1897. He specialized in scenes of coastal ports, including

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, which he visited from 1884 to 1899, and

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, but his favorite would always remain the

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. Until 1905, he benefitted greatly from the patronage of Baron

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, who bought his paintings and donated them to provincial museums. In 1906, he exhibited landscapes at the and was awarded a travel grant to

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the following year. For the remainder of his career, he received significant support from his friends

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, José Silbert and Édouard Crémieux who were, successively, the Directors of the Association des Artistes Marseillais. Apart from brief trips to Venice and

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, he was content to remain in his home district. After

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, he took advantage of accommodations that had been provided for him in

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. During the 1930s, he gradually developed

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and was forced to stop painting. Two major retrospectives have been held: ''Les terres marines de Joseph Garibaldi'' at Cassis in 2006, and ''Joseph Garibaldi, le Midi paisible'' at the of Marseille in 2012.Pierre Murat, ''Joseph Garibaldi: le Midi paisible : catalogue raisonné'', Fondation Regards de Provence His works may be seen at the ,

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and the .

Selected paintings

File:Garibaldi-Port.jpg, The Port of
Saint-Cyr les Lecques File:Garibaldi-Cathedral.jpg, View of

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Biography

Selected paintings

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