Artist

Vincent Chevilliard

France

Vincent Chevilliard is a France Impressionism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Vincent Chevilliard spent his life painting quiet corners of provincial France where priests swapped gossip over cheap wine. He set up his easel in the back row of church suppers, watching the folds of black cassocks catch the light. The real story, friends say, was never the sermon—it was the moment after, when the old men relaxed into their own wrinkled faces. Look for “The Curé’s Story” in a small-town museum in Auvergne; the priests’ sideways glances spill more truth than any pulpit ever did.

Works by Vincent Chevilliard

Collections represented

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