Watercolour.

Stamped on the back, fixed on cardboard.

Provenance : family of the artist.

William LAPARRA (1873, Bordeaux - 1920, Hecho) :

William Laparra had double origin, Italian from his mother and Spanish from his father. He began his artistic studies at the Bordeaux Municipal School of Drawing. Then he enrolled in Paris at the Académie Julian (1892) and the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Pupil of Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre and William Bouguereau, he was awarded  the Second Prix de Rome in 1894. He stayed at the Académie de France in Roma from 1899 to 1902. In 1908 he worked in Spain with Beruete, Sorolla and Zuloaga. Between 1903 and 1921, every year he exhibited his works at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris, but also in Pau, Aurillac and Bayonne. From 1914 to 1918 he joined the First World War. He died on the 5th of September 1920 in Hecho, Spain.

Bibliography : William Laparra (1873-1920), Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, January-February 1997.