Children in the Park Oil Painting signed Jules R. Herve lower left, also signed in the verso measuring 8.5 inches x 10.5 inches (artwork) / 14.25 inches x 14.25 inches (framed), in original stretchers parcel gilt frame.
Jules Rene Herve (1887 - 1981) Biography
-The artist was born at Langres in France in 1887. He began his studies at the School of Decorative Arts and the Fine Art School.
-He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais for the first time in 1910 and 1914 he won the Silver Medal for the same society. He joined the French army for the war but took up painting when he returned in 1920.
-The French Government awarded him a traveling scholarship in 1924 and in 1925 he won a Gold Medal. He also won a medal at the International Paris Exhibition in 1937. Between 1911 and 1943 he taught other artists and he also won the Belle Table Prize and the Leguay Prize.
-His work has been purchased by the most of the leading museums in France and although he represented the purest tradition of French art and paints with great impressionism, he was completely unaffected by the current fashion of art. He has always sought to master the technical secrets of art and painted with a marvelous harmony of color and light.
-Elected Vice President of the Salon des Artistes Francais and a member of The Jury of the Society of French Artists.
Selected Exhibitions
-1941 Salon des Artistes, Paris, France
-1926 Salon des Artistes, Paris, France
An impressionist French artist whose subjects ranged from rural genre to Parisien city scenes and whose reputation was for shimmering colors, Jules Rene Herve was born in Langres in eastern France. He first studied art in evening classes in his hometown, knowing as a child he wanted to be an artist. Then he enrolled in the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, and in 1910, first exhibited a painting in the Salon of French Artists. In 1914, he received the Medaille d'Argent (silver medal) from the French Artists association, and from that time was a regular exhibitor at the Paris Salons. However, his painting career was interrupted because of serving in the Army for the duration of World War I.
He had earned a teaching certificate, and from 1911 to 1943, with the exception of his war service, was an art instructor for many students.
As a painter, he preferred solitude, and was not focused on publicity or being a part of any 'group' of like-minded painters.
His paintings are in collections in Pads, Langares, Saint-Etienne, Annecy and Tourcoing France; and in Chicago at the Art Institute, and the Dahesh Museum in New York City.

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