Théodore Jourdan

Théodore Antoine Louis Jourdan (29 July 1833, Salon-de-Provence – 3 January 1908, Marseille) was a French painter of rural genre scenes.

He began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille [fr] and completed them in the workshops of Émile Loubon, in Paris.

His debut came at the Exposition Marseillaise of 1859 with "Une visite à Nazareth".

Many of his works feature the local breed of sheep known as the Mérinos d'Arles [fr].

He bequeathed nineteen large works and numerous drawings to his native village, Salon-de-Provence, in exchange for a lifetime pension, to be paid to his widow.