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CBorn on January 25, 1855, in Saint-Servan, near Saint-Malo, his talent for drawing was so evident that the young boy was sent to the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes.
In 1875, Meslé left for the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with a letter of recommendation from Jean François Millet (1814-1875), a brilliant student, hard-working, and conscientious. He participated in the 1880 Salon. Ten years later, he left the French Artists Association to join the splinter groups of Rodin and Puvis d'Chavannes in 1892. Meslé settled in Rennes in 1881-1882, quickly becoming a renowned portrait painter. In 1890, he married Yacinthe Bremontier. Iles moved to Jaulgonne, located along the Marne, between Dormans and Château-Thierry, a few kilometers from his colleague, Léon Lhermitte (1844-1925).
In 1896, the couple settled in Chamigny. Deeply interested in the pictorial movements of his time, he heard the cries of the wild beasts, exhibited with the Neo-Impressionists of Lagny, and frequented Lhermitte and the painters of Luzancy, Bouché, and Massé. In Chamigny, Meslé offered advice to an enthusiastic young man, an accomplished violinist and a lover of painting: André Planson (1898-1981).
Meslé enjoyed success; his paintings sold well in France and the United States. He exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit, and in 1925, Americans bought his entire stock of canvases. Meslé died suddenly on June 20, 1927.
Public collections:
Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes
Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes
Museum of Saint-Malo
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
Musée Fabre of Montpellier
Museum Briard of Jouarre
Chamigny Town Hall
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