Edmond-Jean de Pury
“Grande tratta” in Venice, 1895
Oil on Canvas, 213 x 335 cm
Kunstmuseum Bern
Edmond-Jean de Pury (1845–1911)
Edmond-Jean de Pury was a Swiss genre and portrait painter as well as a graphic artist. He studied privately in Paris and Florence – where a fellow student painted his nude portrait. From the 1870s onwards, he painted peasant labourers and fishermen in Rome, Venice, Naples and on Capri. He received a medal at the Paris World’s Fair in 1889.