Laurent Guétal, also known as the Abbé Guétal (12 December 1841,

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- 18 February 1892,

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) was a French landscape painter and

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He was ordained a priest in 1862, and spent much of his life at the Petit Séminaire of Rondeau, near Grenoble. Most of his works were painted in that vicinity. His primary stylistic influence came from

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, but he eventually adopted a more purely realistic approach. He was associated with the

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, and was one of the first members of the , a school of landscape painters in the

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, which included

Ernest Victor Hareux Ernest Victor Hareux (18 February 1847, Paris - 16 February 1909, Grenoble) was a French painter of landscapes and genre scenes. Biography He displayed a talent for drawing at the age of ten, and studied with several well known artists, includ ...

and

Charles Bertier Charles Alexandre Bertier (1 October 1860 – 26 July 1924) was a French landscape painter. Biography His family owned a glove making business. He entered the "Petit Séminaire du Rondeau", where he studied design with Laurent Guétal, who ...

.''Le sentiment de la Montagne'', exhibition catalog, Glénat / Musée de Grenoble, 1998 He was a regular exhibitor at the

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in Paris, from 1882 to 1889. One of his best known works, depicting the Lac de l'Eychauda, received an award there in 1886, and was chosen to be displayed at the

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. It is currently held at the

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. His native town has another well known work, "The End of the World at

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", in the . He is interred at the

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. The largest number of his works may be seen at the Musée de Grenoble.

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