Edouard Julien.French ( b.1883 - d.1966 ).Self Portrait, 1932.Oil On Panel.Image size 17.7 inches x 14.6 inches ( 45cm x 37cm ).Frame size 20.9 inches x 17.7 inches ( 53cm x 45cm ).Available for sale from Big Sky Fine Art in the English county of Dorset, this original oil painting is by the French artist and scholar Edouard Julien and dates from 1932.The painting is presented and supplied in a recent wooden frame (which is shown in these photographs).This vintage painting is in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.Provenance: Previously with the Groch de Salmiech family collection according to 1967 exhibition entries and a catalogue number on the reverse of the panel.Edouard Julien was an accomplished French painter and lithographer, and long-term curator of the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum in Albi. As a scholar of Toulouse-Lautrec he also became an art writer sought after by publishers all over the world. He worked as an artist for some years before becoming the curator of the Toulouse-Lautrec museum in Albi, where he worked for 30 years. On the retirement he was nominated as Officer of the Legion of Honor and Knight of Arts and Letters. A major retrospective exhibition of his own works was held at the Museum in 1967. He was not only a great curator, but a well-respected artist in his own right and much admired by his contemporaries.� Big Sky Fine ArtThis is a rare oil on panel self-portrait by Edouard Julien. It is dated 1932, when he would have been around 49 years old and working full time as an artist. It shows the artist in round rimmed spectacles and a wide-brimmed grey felt hat. He is also wearing a brown jacket, smart white shirt and tie. He has a neat moustache and beard, gently turning to grey. The head and shoulders portrait is set against a backdrop of a studio with the outline of frames of paintings on the walls behind. The colours in the background reflec...