Dominique Paul Peyronnet

Dominique-Paul Peyronnet (1872–1943) was a French painter.

Biography Peyronnet was born in Talence, France, in 1872. From 1902, he worked as a printmaker at a lithography business in Paris, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. He undertook military service during the war, and then began painting in 1920, after retiring from his prior career. He died in 1943 in Paris, France.

Artwork After retiring in 1920, Peyronnet began to paint landscapes. and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants between 1932 and 1935. The detailed focus of his canvases and his simplified motifs engendered comparisons with Henri Rousseau and other exponents of naïve art.