View of Rouen circa 1890 ,Eugène Clary French (1856 - 1929)

Oil on canvas

24 x 40

Jean-Eugène Clary, known as Eugène Clary, was born in Paris on June 14, 1856. He was a French landscape painter. A pupil of César de Cock, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon of 1878, then at the Salons of the National Society of Fine Arts and at the Salon of French Artists. He won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris. He followed the dissidents who founded the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, of which he was a partner in 1890, then a member in 1920. He painted numerous Norman landscapes and several of his paintings are kept at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Lisieux and the Musée Nicolas-Poussin in Les Andelys, where he ended his life.