Jean Despujols, French, 1886 to 1965, an oil on canvas painting depicting a portrait of a young nude woman. Signed by the artist lower right. Framed. Inscribed verso. Note: Jean Despujols was a French, later naturalized American, painter. He was a pupil of Paul Quinsac at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux. In 1914 he won the Prix de Rome for painting but the outbreak of World War I suspended the French residencies at the villa Medicis. He had his stay in Rome after the war with his fellow painter Jean Dupas. His associations with America began in 1924-1936 as a teacher of the American art students sent to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau. In 1936, he won the Prix de l Indochine, and was selected by the Grand Conseil Economique of French Indochina to undertake a tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos painting and drawing what he saw. When World War II broke out he emigrated to America, settling in Louisiana, and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport. The Texas oil millionaire Algur H. Meadowsacquired a 360-piece collection of oil paintings and watercolors in 1969 and the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana was built to house these paintings. One of a kind artwork. Antique European Fine Art And Wall Decor Collectibles.