PERRON Charles Clément Landscape Painting Castle of the Loire Nantes Oil Painting
Signed at the bottom right. Dimensions: 35 x 27 cm. Charles Perron, born on August 22, 1893, in Plessé (Loire-Atlantique), died on April 18, 1958, in Nantes, was a French painter of the 20th century. He won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1921. In 1926, he received the Eugène-Thirion prize. From 1936 to 1945, he was the curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes; he regularly stayed in Gâvre and had a studio there starting in 1938.
Most of his works are found in private collections; some are present in the museums of Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Guérande, and Rennes, as well as in Paris, Cambrai, and Tourcoing.