Henri Guinier

But then, he took courses at the Academie Julian and the École des beaux-arts in Paris, being attached to the studios of Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jules Lefebvre.

In 1896 he was awarded second prize in the Prix de Rome, followed by a gold medal at the Salon des artistes français in 1898.

He painted landscapes and marine views, mostly around Concarneau and the Pays Bigouden, as well as Le Faouët, Vannes, Paimpol and the Île-de-Bréhat.

[2] He painted many subjects: the allegorical, genre works, nudes, portraits and the countryside, and spent time in Italy, Holland, the Alps and the Pyrénées.

[3] He also received many public commissions including, in 1909, with several other artists, the decoration of the Neuilly-sur-Seine townhall for which he painted the composition La Tapisserie.