Jean Paul SINIBALDI
 (Paris, 1857 – Bourg-en-Bresse, 1909)

 Elegant Parisian woman strolling in a public garden

 Oil on panel
 Signed lower left
 37 x 23 cm

 A student of Alexandre Cabanel at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Belgian academic painter Alfred Stevens, Paul Sinibaldi participated in the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1882 until 1905. He was awarded many prizes: honorable mention in 1886, bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, second class medal in 1898 and silver medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

 He mainly practiced genre painting, historical painting and portraiture - at the end of his career, more rarely landscape and symbolist painting.

 In 1888 he received a travel grant which he used to make a grand tour of Italy to study the great masters of the Renaissance.

 Sinibaldi also tackled large-scale decoration by participating in the construction sites of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris and the town hall in Lille (destroyed in 1916) as well as the decoration of the Château de Neuville-sur-Ain, a site to which he had access on the recommendation of his father-in-law: the departmental architect Tony Ferret.

 Sinibaldi was made a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1900.

 The artist died on January 17, 1909 in Bourg-en-Bresse. His studio assets were sold at public auction on May 17, 1909 at the Hôtel Drouot.

 Museums : Amiens, Gray, Mulhouse, Sète, Budapest, Reims…