Henri Pierre Jamet

Born in Gien in 1858, Henri Pierre Jamet  died in Gargilesse in 1940.
A portraitist, landscape painter and specialist in genre scenes, Henri Jamet is one of the Creuse Valley's leading artists.
He studied with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then with Henri Harpignies and Albert Maignan. Henri Jamet's artistic career mainly took place between Montmartre and Gargilesse, where he and his wife Marie Mahout, also a painter, had a house and a secondary studio.
By turns a decorator and landscape painter, particularly attached to the Creuse valley, as well as a still-life artist and skilled portraitist, he appears above all as a master of genre painting. In particular, we owe him several Berrichon interiors.
A member of the French Artists' Society, he won numerous prizes at the various exhibitions he took part in, both in Paris and in the provinces. In particular, he won a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition for A Family of Weavers and The Widow's Garden. He is represented in several French museums and at the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow. He took part in decorating the Château de Charbonnière in Saint-Jean-de-Braye and the Montrouge town hall.