Ker-Xavier Roussel

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Ker-Xavier Roussel (December 10, 1867 - June 6, 1944) was a French painter associated with Les Nabis.

Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris and with his friend Édouard Vuillard at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. In 1888 he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts and soon began frequenting the Académie Julian where students formed Les Nabis.

He is best known for paintings of French landscapes usually depicting women, children, nymphs and fauns in bucolic settings. In 1899, Roussel, Vuillard, and another close friend, Pierre Bonnard, traveled to Lake Como, Venice and Milan.

In 1926 Ker-Xavier Roussel won the Carnegie Prize for art.

Ker-Xavier Roussel died in 1944 at his home in l'Etang-la-Ville, Yvelines.