EXPOSITION - Tancrède Abraham "Le sens du paysage"

Born in Vitré in 1836, Tancrède Abraham moved to Château-Gontier with his family around 1851. He subsequently divided his time between Paris, where he worked with the great academic masters, and Château-Gontier, where his duties as drawing teacher and director of the municipal museum called him. A renowned landscape painter, Abraham began by painting before excelling in the art of etching. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1863 and regularly took part in regional exhibitions in the west...