Rue Barthélémy Niollon

In his youth, Barthélemy Niollon worked in the mine with his father. Placed then at a shopkeeper's in Aix, he attended the drawing school and obtained in 1865, the first year, a first prize by following the courses of Joseph Villevieille. His talents would have allowed him to obtain a grant from the city of Aix-en-Provence to go and perfect his art in Paris, but he decided to stay in Provence. In 1874, he married Marie Alexis and became a nougat maker like his father-in-law. He retired from commerce in 1894 and devoted himself exclusively to painting. He exhibited Le Chaudron at the Salon des artistes français in 1882.

In 1895, Barthélemy Niollon participates àation of the Société of the friends of the arts of Aix, which will be dissolved in 1909, and àa new creation of this society été in 1919. He exhibited at the Audin Gallery in Aix-en-Provence and, towards the end of his life, he was the dean of the commission of the Museum of Fine Arts in Aix-en-Provence. Barthélemy Niollon is named knight of the Légion of honor by decree of April 10, 1925. He dies of a fall from the roof of his studio, at No. 36, rue du Quatre-Septembre à Aix-en-Provence.

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