Le Prabé (2, 042m - 6,699ft)
Switzerland (Valais)
In "Savièse in Valais (Morning in the mountains)", oil on canvas, 1912, Private collection
The mountain
The Painter
Édouard
Eugène Francis Vallet (1876 -1929) was a Swiss artist. Born in Geneva
he went to a boarding school in France and apprenticed as a stonemason
in 1892. He then went to the Geneva College of Fine Arts and studied
woodcuts under Alfred Martin, Pierre Pignolat and Barthélemy Menn. He
also travelled to Germany and Italy and held his first exhibition in
1899. He lived in the Swiss mountains in Valais, Savièse, Ayent,
Hérémence, Vercorin and Sion from 1908 and painted portraits and
landscapes from the region. He married the painter Marguerite Gilliard,
daughter of the artist Eugène Gilliard (1861-1921) and after her death
in 1918, he married Marie Jollien (1886-1951). Vallet died in 1929 and
is buried in the cemetery at Confignon.
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2022 - Wandering Vertexes...
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