44. Paul Louis Joseph Roux (French, 1840-1918)

"Fontaines" (alternately titled on reverse "Marcilly - pres Meaux.")
watercolor on paper, signed in full at lower right and inscribed "Fontaines", double matted and framed.
6-3/4" x 10" image size.

400/600     SOLD: $448.50

Note: Taped to the back of this framed watercolor is a hand-written note on cardboard which was presumably part of the backing of earlier framing, and appears to be in the artist's hand. The note indicates that the landscape was exhibited in the foreign artist's section (a l'Etranger) of the Salon des Peintres Francais (no date given).

Paul Roux was a talented Parisian watercolorist and engraver who specialized in pure landscape. He was the student of his father, Louis Roux (1817-1903) who himself was a student of Delaroche, and of the important French history painter, Alexandre Cabanel. Roux made his Salon debut in 1870, and continued to take part in Parisian exhibitions for the greater part of his career. He exhibited not only his oils and watercolors, but also his drawings and prints. He drew the subjects of his landscapes from the environs of Paris, most specifically the forest of Fontainebleau, Brittany and Normandy.

Condition: very good; no noticable damages.