Julien Renevier (1847 - 1907), ''À l'Atelier''.
Julien Renevier was a Swiss painter. Born into a wealthy and cultured family, he showed an early talent for drawing. Nevertheless, he went on to study theology at the Lausanne Academy, continuing his education in Berlin. But in 1872 he abandoned his studies at the Berlin Academy in order to devote himself fully to painting; he went on to complete his training in Munich. Then, in 1878, at the age of thirty-one, he left Munich for Italy. After visiting Venice, he settled in Rome, where he remained for eleven years, traveling regularly throughout Italy and France, with visits home to Switzerland. He exhibited frequently in his native country and also participated in the Paris Salons in 1883 and 1884, as well as in the Universal Exhibitions of 1889 and 1900. In 1889 he gave up his Roman studio and returned to Switzerland to care for his sick mother, but continued to exhibit. During the last twenty years of his life, he gradually abandoned painting in oils, turning instead to watercolor and pastel. He died of pneumonia at the age of fifty-nine.
