Jean Roque

Jean Roque
Portrait of Roque by Theophile Steinlen on 30 August 1915
Born(1880-01-08)8 January 1880
Died6 December 1925(1925-12-06) (aged 45)
Paris, France
OccupationPainter

Jean Roque (1880–1925) was a French painter.

Biography

Early life

Jean Roque was born on 8 January 1880 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.[1][2] He studied painting in Paris under the tutelage of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) and Humbert.[2]

Career

He became a professional painter.[3] Early on in his career, he rejected the realism of Jean-Léon Gérôme, his teacher, and decided to focus on painting landscapes, especially the ones of Provence.[1]

Most of his paintings were done from 1906 to 1924. In 1924, he became Peintre de la Marine.

Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923) painted his portrait in 1915.

Death

He died on 6 December 1925 in Paris.[1] He was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Pierre in Marseille.

Paintings

  • Rochers en mer (1906–1908)
  • Élégante sur la terrasse (1906–1908)
  • Les Roches rouges à Agay (1908)
  • Femme assise (1910)
  • Piémontaise (1908–1910)
  • Port de pêche animé (1911)
  • Paysage provençal (1911)
  • Village de pêcheur, bord de mer
  • Le Retour (1913)
  • Retour de pêche (1913)
  • Le Port de Marseille (1914)
  • Bateaux à quai (1915)
  • Barque et pêcheurs au port (1919)
  • Les Pêcheurs (1919)
  • L'Intérieur du port de Marseille (1920)
  • Le Port de Marseille, le bassin de la Joliette
  • Bateaux dans le vieux port (1920)
  • Cargo dans le port de Marseille
  • Le Vieux port de Marseille et Notre-Dame de la Garde (1924)

References

  1. Gérald Schurr, 1820–1920, les petits maîtres de la peinture: valeur de demain, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1982, p. 61
  2. Pierre Guiral, Félix Reynaud, Les Marseillais dans l'histoire, Privat, 1988, p. 215
  3. Eric Storm, The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890–1939, Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2011, p. 24
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