“Women in Piazza di Spagna, at the Fontana della Barcaccia, Rome” oil on canvas by the French painter François Maurice Roganeau. Work signed and dated F. M. Roganeau Rome 1908.
Francis Maurice Roganeau (Bordeaux 1883 – Aix-en-Provence 1973) is a French painter, illustrator and sculptor. François-Maurice Roganeau was student of the renowned sculptors Gaston Veuvenot Leroux and Paul Quinsac at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, then he went to study in Jean-Léon Gérôme’s studio and later on with Gabriel Ferrier at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.
He started with illustration and painting. As an illustrator, he mainly worked for the publisher Henri Laurens.
In 1906 he won the first Grand Prix of Rome in painting and the second Grand Prix of sculpture. He exhibited at the 1912 Salon and received a medal for his he painting Le Soir, à la Rivière, inspired by one of André Chénier’s Poésies antiques.
In 1917 he was commissioned to repair the identical ceiling of the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, initially painted by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Robin. He also supplied colored glass boxes to the master glassmaker Gustave Pierre Dagrant, such as the one in the stained glass window of the church of Castillon-la-Bataille.
He was director of the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts from 1929 to 1958.
In 1932 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor. His latest works depict the Basque Country, its people and its landscapes.
Period: 1908
Measurements: In frame h 54.5 x L 61.5 x D 6 / Canvas 28.5 x L 35.5 cm
