"Jules René Hervé - Tuileries Garden - 20th Century"
Jules René HervéFrench, 1887-1981
"Tuileries Garden"
Oil on canvas; 18 x 21 3/4 inches
Signed lower right
Framed dimensions; 21 x 24 inches
Jules René Hervé was born in Langres in eastern France. He first studied art by taking 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. Hervé worked in the Impressionist style, choosing subjects as varied as rural genre scenes to Parisian city scenes, whose reputation was for shimmering colors.
