JAMET Henri ( 1858 - 1940 )
Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat in 1927.
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1927 lower right.
54 x 73 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Henri Pierre Jamet was born in Gien in 1858 and died in Gargilesse in 1940.
Portraitist, landscape painter and specialist in genre scenes, Henri Jamet is one of the artists of the Creuse valley.
He was a pupil of Jean-Leon Ger™me at the ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then of Henri Harpignies and Albert Maignan. Henri Jamet's artistic career took place mainly between Montmartre and Gargilesse, where he and his wife Marie Mahout, also a painter, had a house and a secondary studio.
In turn a decorator, a landscape painter particularly attached to the Creuse valley, but also an author of still lifes and a skilful portraitist, he appears above all as a master of genre painting. In particular, he is responsible for several interiors from Berry.
A member of the French Artists' Association, he has been awarded numerous prizes at the various exhibitions in which he has participated, both in Paris and in the provinces. He won a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition for A Family of Weavers and The Widow's Garden. He is represented in several French museums and at the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow. He participated in the decoration of the Ch‰teau de Charbonnire in Saint-Jean-de-Braye and in that of the town hall of Montrouge. The decorative panels he had made for the church of Saint-Pierre in Gien were declared destroyed during the bombings of 1940.
Henri Jamet was the father of Pierre Jamet (1893-1991) and the grandfather of Marie-Claire Jamet, (born in 1933), both internationally renowned harpists.
He was also the father of Charles Jamet, a cellist, and the grandfather of Lucien Jamet, a painter and ceramist. He is the great-grandfather of Jean-Francois Jamet and Eric Jamet (1957-2019).
He died in Gargilesse on October 17, 1940.
Museums: Bourges, Ch‰teauroux, Paris (Petit Palais), Auxerre, La Ch‰tre, Orleans, Roumiantzeff Museum in Moscow.
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