Laurent Guétal

Laurent Guétal, also known as the Abbé Guétal (12 December 1841, Vienne - 18 February 1892, Grenoble) was a French landscape painter and Catholic priest.[1]

Laurent Guétal; bust by
Aimé Charles Irvoy
The Lac de l'Eychauda

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 Jean Achard, but he eventually adopted a more purely realistic approach. He was associated with the École de Crozant, and was one of the first members of the École dauphinoise, a chool of landscape painters in the Dauphiné, which included Ernest Victor Hareux and Charles Bertier.[3]

He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon in Paris, from 1882 to 1889. One of his best known works, depicting the Lac de l'Eychauda, received an award there in 1886, and was chosen to be displayed at the Exposition Universelle (1889). It is currently held 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.

He is interred at the Saint Roch Cemetery. The largest number of his works may be seen at the Musée de Grenoble.

References
  1. Maurice Wantellet (Ed.), Deux siècles et plus de peinture dauphinoise, Grenoble, 1987 ISBN 2-9502223-0-7
  2. Jean Achard, Laurent Guétal, Charles Bertier: Trois maîtres du paysage dauphinois au xixe siècle, Musée de Grenoble, éditions Artlys, ISBN 2-85495-270-7
  3. Le sentiment de la Montagne, exhibition catalog, Glénat / Musée de Grenoble, 1998 ISBN 2-7234-2614-9

Further reading
  • Georges Lafenestre, "Le Salon de 1889", in: 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
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