Inscribed and dated: Toulon, Octobre 1893

Dedicated and signed: A mon ami E. Bejot / Henri Rudaux

Condition: stains

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Henri-Edmond Rudaux (Paris 1870–1927) was a French painter, lithographer and illustrator. Son and pupil of the painter Edmond Rudaux (1840–1908), Benjamin-Constant, Jules Lefebvre, and later Tony Robert-Fleury, he became a member of the Société des artistes français in 1893 and exhibited regularly at the Salon (honourable mention in 1897).

The watercolour is addressed to his friend Eugène Béjot (Paris 1867–1931), also a painter and engraver. Close to Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Henri Guérard, Félix Bracquemond, Félix Buhot... he joined the Société nationale des beaux-arts in 1893 and exhibited at the Salon until 1912. He was awarded a silver medal at the 1900 World’s Fair.