Watercolor, Venice Signed Gilbert Galland (1870-1950)

Watercolor under frame signed Gilbert Galland (1870-1950) representing a view of Venice. In the foreground of the boats and in the background on the left, the Punta della Dogana (customs point, current Pinault foundation) and the Santa Maria della Salute.

In Algiers, in 1889, Gilbert Galland was a student of Hippolyte Dubois, Nantes painter and director of the Fine Arts of Algiers from 1885 to 1909, with whom he founded the Society of Algerian Orientalist Artists in 1897. He liked to paint boats, ports and scenes of life. He exhibited at the Society of Fine Arts of Algiers and also in Paris, where he presented watercolors: views of Brittany, Marseille, the Far East and Algeria.

Gilbert Galland was appointed painter of the Navy in 1900. He decorated numerous liners for shipping companies.

Gilbert Galland received the Academic Palms in 1901.