Gaston Roullet (France, 1847-1925)
Village de Dong Ba, faubourg de Hue (Annam - 1885)
signed 'Gaston Roullet' and titled (lower left)
oil on canvas
70 x 100 cm. (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1885
Gaston Roullet, appointed official painter of the Colonies and the Navy in 1885, was the first official Navy painter to visit Tonkin and Annam. He arrived in northern Indochina in 1886, at a time when the country was still in turmoil. He stayed only a few months, but produced no fewer than 200 works.
