Tableau study Pastel Ed. Pannetier (1884-1965) City and castle

Beautiful work created in pastel on brown paper depicting a landscape (a town on a promontory with a castle?). The work is signed (in coloured pencil) and comes from a studio collection acquired from the artist's descendants. In good condition, with traces of tape on the corners: everything is visible in the photos. Provenance: artist's family. Sheet dimensions: 23 / 31 cm. For any further information or to request photos for enlargement, please feel free to contact me directly: sylvere.carlier@neuf.fr Edouard Pannetier (1884-1965): Edouard-Emmanuel-Charles Pannetier, a Provençal and Orientalist painter, was born on 6 November 1884 in Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne). An orphan of his father, he began his artistic studies at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown and then at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris. Trained as a drawing teacher, he worked for several years in Algeria at the Lamoricière high school in Oran between 1910 and 1920. Upon returning to France, he worked as a drawing teacher at the high school in Aix-en-Provence around 1930. He painted numerous landscapes and genre scenes from Algeria and Provence. Additionally, he illustrated several literary works, highlighting the novel “Atala” by Chateaubriand in its 1946 edition. He passed away in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris, on 14 October 1965, at the age of 80.