Ker Xavier Roussel

French, 1867-1944
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Ker-Xavier Roussel was a French painter associated with les Nabis. Born Francois Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alongside his friend Edouard Vuillard, he also studied at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. In 1888 he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and soon began frequenting the Académie Julian where Maurice Denis and other students formed the group Les Nabis.

He is best known for paintings of French landscapes usually depicting women, children, nymphs, and fauns in bucolic settings. In 1899, Roussel, Vuillard, and another close friend, Pierre Bonnard, traveled to Lake Como, Venice, and Milan.

In 1926 Ker-Xavier Roussel won the Carnegie Prize for art.

Ker-Xavier Roussel died in 1944 at his home in l’Etang-la-Ville, Yvelines.

Le Barc de Boutteville Gallery, 1891

Ambrose Vollard, 1898

Durand-Ruel, 1899

Art Institute of Chicago

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Los Angeles County Museum

Musées de Lorraine, France

Ker-Xavier Roussel was a French painter associated with les Nabis. Born Francois Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alongside his friend Edouard Vuillard, he also studied at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. In 1888 he enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and soon began frequenting the Académie Julian where Maurice Denis and other students formed the group Les Nabis.

He is best known for paintings of French landscapes usually depicting women, children, nymphs, and fauns in bucolic settings. In 1899, Roussel, Vuillard, and another close friend, Pierre Bonnard, traveled to Lake Como, Venice, and Milan.

In 1926 Ker-Xavier Roussel won the Carnegie Prize for art.

Ker-Xavier Roussel died in 1944 at his home in l’Etang-la-Ville, Yvelines.

Awards & Memberships

Selected Exhibitions

Le Barc de Boutteville Gallery, 1891

Ambrose Vollard, 1898

Durand-Ruel, 1899

Museums & Collections

Art Institute of Chicago

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Los Angeles County Museum

Musées de Lorraine, France

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