Fecamp – The Artists – Roullet, Gaston
This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Fecamp. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.
Marie Anatole Gaston Roullet (1847 – 1925), is a French painter and illustrator, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885. He is the father of the playwright and theater and cinema director Jacques Roullet (1878-1946) and the uncle of the painter Marie-Therese Dethan-Roullet (1870-1945).
Son of Marie Zelie Boullineau and Auguste Roullet, court clerk, Marie Anatole Gaston Roullet was a pupil of Jules Noel, whose daughter, Marie-Caroline, he married in 1874. He ended up falling out with Jules Noel, wanting to prohibit frequenting gambling halls.
Appointed painter to the Navy and the departments of the Colonies, Roullet took part in the military campaigns of Tonkin in 1885 and 1886 with an artistic mission given by the State to execute drawings; then he left for Tunisia (1889-1890), New Caledonia (1889), Senegal and Sudan (1891).
He became the correspondent for Le Monde Illustre for which he executed scenes from Africa, Oceania, Indochina and Canada, but also inspired by many sites on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy.
Click here to read Roullet’s bio on Wikipedia (in French only).
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Gaston Roullet painted all over the world, but here are the places he painted in France (a link “⇠” will appear next to each place when published):
- Brittany
- Fougeres
- Larmor-Plage
- Pont-Aven
- Quimper
- Treboul
- Hauts-de-France
- Calais
- Normandy
- Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Cannes
- Toulon
Fecamp is a picturesque fishing town which made for a great backdrop for many artist. Here are all the artists who applied their arts in the town and its surroundings (a link “⇠” will appear when we have published an article on this artist’s works in Fecamp):
NOTE: a “*” besides the artist’s name indicates that the artist did NOT work directly in Fecamp, instead worked in Fecamp’s surroundings only.
- 🇺🇸 Boggs, Frank Myers ⇠
- 🇷🇺 Bogolyubov, Alexey (Alexei) ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudan, Louis * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Boudin, Eugene-Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Bourgeois, Constant ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Burel, Henry E. ⇠
- 🇺🇸 Butler, Theodore Earl ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Callow, William ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Conder, Charles * ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cooke, Edward William ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Cotman, John Sell ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Cyr, Georges Albert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 de Jolimont, Theodore Basset * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Dufy, Raoul ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Garneray, Ambroise Louis ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Gernez, Paul-Elie ⇠
- 🇳🇱 Kickert, Conrad Theodore ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Kuwasseg, Charles Euphrasie ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Letellier, Emile-Andre ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Loiseau, Gustave ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Maclet, Elisee ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Marquet, Albert ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Maufra, Maxime * ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Meadows, Arthur Joseph ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Michallon, Achille-Etna ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Monet, Claude ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Morisot, Berthe ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Pissarro, Camille * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Roullet, Gaston ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Schafer, Henry Thomas ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Schuffenecker, Claude-Emile * ⇠
- 🇫🇷 Signac, Paul
- 🇬🇧 Smallwood, William Frome ⇠
- 🇬🇧 Stanfield, Clarkson Frederick ⇠
- 🇧🇪 Timmermans, Louis-Etienne ⇠
- 🇩🇪 Weber, Theodore Alexander ⇠
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