LE PRABÉ PAINTED BY EDOUARD VALLET

 

ÉDOUARD VALLET (1876-1929)
Le Prabé (2, 042m -  6,699ft)
Switzerland (Valais)

In "Savièse in Valais (Morning in the mountains)", oil on canvas, 1912, Private collection

The mountain 

Le Prabé (2, 042m -  6,699ft) is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Savièse in the canton of Valais. It lies at the southern end of the ridge that descends from the Wildhorn and the Sex Noir. Although the Prabé has almost no topographic prominence, it dominates the Rhone valley with a height of more than 1,500 metres.

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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