Jean Roque

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

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.

[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.

In 1924, he became Peintre de la Marine.