Marius Barret

Biography of Marius Barret ( 1865-1929 )

Marius Barret was a French painter and engraver born in Marseille in 1865.

Painter of portraits and animals and engraver, he was the pupil of Dominique-Antoine Magaud, Raphael Collin and Jean-Baptiste Olive.

In 1923 he received an honorable mention and obtained in 1928 a silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Français. He exhibited at the Exhibition of the Book of Art in Paris and at the Exhibition of the Artistic Society of wood engraving The Centaur and Bacchantes. 

Marius Barret also painted many still lifes and Provençal landscapes such as olive fields and views of the Sainte-Victoire mountain.