OIL ON PANEL BY PAUL SAIN PAYSAGE FORET ST GEORGES DIDONNE DEDICACE C2686 This oil on panel was produced by Paul Saïn. The painting is in good condition, natural wood frame. Note wear and friction on the frame. Dedicated and signed lower left. On the back of the painting, handwritten note in pencil and signed by the artist: Environs de Saint Georges de Didonne - 8th (?) 1905 Charente Inférieur - P. Saïn For the state thank you for detailing the photos Do not hesitate to zoom Paul Saïn, born December 5, 1853 in Avignon, where he died March 6, 1908 , is a French painter. Paul Saïn studied at the École des beaux-arts d'Avignon, where he won the living model prize, then in 1873 the drawing prize from the Calvet museum. He obtained a scholarship to study at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, in the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme, from 1877. He shared a workshop with Paul Avril, Esprit Michel Gibelin, Désiré Honoré Bérard and Jean- Baptiste Hugues. He mainly exhibited seascapes at the Salons of 1879, 1887, 1889, 1890 and 1892. It was with his friends Marius Breuil, Pierre Grivolas and his pupil Louis Agricol Montagné (1879-1960) that they went to the other bank of the Rhône, opposite Avignon, in the small village of Les Angles and stop at the Auberge du Chêne Vert. They plant their easels in the middle of almond trees, hundred-year-old plane trees. He traveled to Algeria in 1887. He was appointed knight of the Legion of Honor in 1895. In 1900, Paul Saïn painted the paintings Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon for the restaurant Le Train bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. Among his students, he counted the painter Lina Bill (1855-1936) whom he met in 1887, the Avignoner Jean-Baptiste Brunel, Louis Agricol Montagné, Marius Gourdault and the orientalist painter of Corsican origin Olynthe Madrigali. He often comes to Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, in the meanders of the Sarthe in this picturesque village which attracted many painters. He ended up residing there for twenty-five years, along with Henri Joseph Harpignies or Marie Céleste Prudent Renard, said Mary Renard. It is at the Auberge des Soeurs Moisy, the Auberge des Peintres, that some will paint portraits on the walls by candlelight. Paul Saïn painted more than 1600 recorded portraits and is considered in his time as one of the greatest landscape painters with Harpignies. He rests in the cemetery of Saint-Véran in Avignon where his grave is decorated with his portrait in bronze medallion by Félix Charpentier (1894). Source: Wikipedia. The photos are an integral part of the description. Dimensions: Height: 35.5 cm Width : 44.8 cmPaintHeight: 23.5 cmWidth: 33 cmP: 688239 I remain at your disposal for any questions.