Watercolour

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End of 19th century

René Binet is a french painter and architect. He was a pupil of Victor Laloux at the Fine Arts School of Paris. After many travels in Spain, Italy and Middle-East, he devotes his work to watercolor. He exhibited an interesting set of watercolors made during his travels in Italy, at the gallery Durand-Ruel, end of the 19th century. He returned to architecture, and conceived in particular the Gate on the Concorde square for the Universal Exhibition in 1900, the Post office at the Porte Dorée, and the new Printemps stores. He illustrated « Versailles » of Pierre De Nolhac in 1906. He drew cartoons for tapestries for the Gobelins manufacture.

Two watercolours by René Binet are kept in the Museum of Orsay's collections.

Biblio : Edouard Joseph, 1930, page 140, vol I. Benezit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, page 325, vol II, Gründ, 1999.