ROUSSEAU Jean-Jacques (1861-1911)

"View of the Thames in London, 1899"

Oil on canvas,
Signed, dated 1899 and located lower left,

Beautiful work by the painter Jean-Jacques Rousseau which represents a view of the animated Thames power plants. We can distinguish ships and in the background the power plants in full operation, with smoking chimneys.
This work is a beautiful and rare testimony to the industrial air in London at the end of the 19th century.

We know of the artist another view of London made in pastel from 1899.

A pupil of Desportes, Lehmann, Roll and Ribot, he exhibited at the Salon from 1878.
He was vice-president of the Colonial Society of French Artists.
He received a medal in 1889 and 1900, at the Universal Exhibition in Paris.
He was made Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1903.
He made decorations for the former Colonial Museum in Paris.

Dimensions: 38 x 62 cm without frame and 48 x 72 cm with its original wooden frame.

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