Louis Iselin

Louis Iselin is known from a small number of signed and dated paintings of the 1930s, coastal and harbour views in a late divisionist manner, with the light of the sky and the water broken into short strokes of pure colour. He signed his work ‘L. Iselin’.

No biography of the painter has yet been established: the standard dictionaries and the French national library catalogue have no entry under his name, and his dates and places of birth and death remain to be found.

The Iselin family name is Alsatian and Swiss, and the subject of the painting offered here, a Mediterranean-looking shore with a breakwater of white buildings and hills behind, suggests a painter who travelled to the south or to North Africa, as many French painters of his generation did.

We would welcome any documentation on the artist from collectors or descendants.