Laurent Guétal
Aimé Charles Irvoy
Laurent Guétal, also known as the Abbé Guétal (12 December 1841,
Catholic priest.[1]
Life and work
He was ordained a priest in 1862, and spent much of his life at the Petit Séminaire of Rondeau, near Grenoble. Most of his works were painted in that vicinity.[2]
His primary stylistic influence came from
École de Crozant, and was one of the first members of the École dauphinoise, a school of landscape painters in the Dauphiné, which included Ernest Victor Hareux and Charles Bertier.[3]
He was a regular exhibitor at the
Musée de Grenoble. His native town has another well known work, "The End of the World at Allevard", in the Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Vienne
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He is interred at the Saint Roch Cemetery. The largest number of his works may be seen at the Musée de Grenoble.
References
- ISBN 2-9502223-0-7
- ISBN 2-85495-270-7
- ISBN 2-7234-2614-9
Further reading
- Revue des Deux Mondes. Online@ French WikiSource
- Valérie Huss (Ed.), Grenoble et ses artistes au xixe siècle, Musée de Grenoble, exhibition catalog, 2020 ISBN 94-616-1594-9
- Guy Tosatto (Ed.), Trois maîtres du paysage dauphinois au xixe siècle: Jean Achard, Laurent Guétal et Charles Bertier, exhibition catalog, Musée de Grenoble, 2005-2006, éditions Artlys ISBN 2-85495-270-7
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Laurent Guétal.
- Works by Guétal @ the Base Joconde
- More works by Guétal @ ArtNet
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