Oil on canvas, good general condition Jean Arnavielle had a fairly free childhood in Paris, where his parents were wholesale jewelers on the Quai Voltaire, as a "neighborhood vagabond", a regular at the performances of the nearby Cirque d'Hiver from an early age, and then "at all the theaters in Paris, where he remained as loyal a spectator as he was a merciless critic"[2]. Ignacio Zuloaga. After completing his military service in Le Havre in 1901, he made a long journey with a friend along the Seine, painting on location and lingering in particular at Pont-de-l'Arche, Rouen "where he said he was "taken by the strange atmosphere that he would later hardly find again except in Holland"", and finally La Bouille, from which he brought back many paintings that constituted his submission to the Salon des Indépendants in 1908[2]. When in Paris, in February-March 1912, he exhibited at the Galerie Devambez alongside Ignacio Zuloaga, a Spanish painter then living in Segovia, the Gazette des beaux-arts praised him as "showing very skillful landscapes"[3]. A volunteer during the First World War, Jean Arnavielle was assigned to the health service of the city of Rouen where he formed a lasting friendship with the violinist Robert Krettly and the actor Georges Dorival. After the armistice of 1918, he remained for a time in Rouen where he had several exhibitions. Returning to Paris, he would however keep a residence there and would be called "Rouennais at heart"[2]. Fernand Chalandre. In landscapes that Gérald Schurr and the Dictionnaire Bénézit agree in seeing "composed in the manner of those of Albert Marquet", the former also noting that "his silhouettes in parks are very skillful"[4], his painting describes vacations in Île-de-France (Versailles), in Normandy (views of Rouen and the Seine valley)[5], in Brittany (views of Douarnenez, Le Pardon de Sainte-Anne-la-Palud in Plonévez-Porzay, L'Île-Tudy), in the Alpes-Maritimes (The Bay of Antibes), in Haute-Loire (The Rock of Espaly), in Savoie (The Vanoise Massif) and especially in Nièvre (views of Chevroches, La Charité-sur-Loire, Clamecy and Nevers) where, with Louis Charlot, he is among the Parisian artists that André Deslignères[6] attracted to it. Like the latter, in parallel with painting, he is situated within the Nivernais school of engraving of Fernand Chalandre[7]. Quai de Paris, Rouen. The catalogues of the Salon des Indépendants of March-May 1913 and January-February 1920 state that he resided at 5, rue Stanislas in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The catalogue of March-May 1926 states that he was doubly established at La Ruche, a city of artists at 2, passage de Dantzig in the 15th arrondissement of Paris and at 8, quai de Paris in Rouen. Two of these catalogues also establish for him, through the views of Toledo and Segovia dated 1914 which constitute his submissions, a pictorial relationship to the Spain of Ignacio Zuloaga Type:Oil Genre:Art Deco Characteristics:On canvas Theme:Landscape