Louis Berthomme Saint-André joined Georges Naud and was responsible for the historical monuments of the Lower Charente, as a student architect. In 1921, he was a pupil of Fernand Cormon and Jean-Paul Laurens at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Louis won the Silver medal at the Salon des artistes français where he exhibited from 1924 to 1929. He also obtained a grant from the Algerian government. He won the Abd-el-Tif Prize in 1925 and was then the youngest resident of the villa in Algiers. A friend of Jean Launois, in addition to his well-known portraits, he painted Algiers and the Kasbah. His studies of women recall those of Eugène Delacroix, but if his luminous inspiration is due to the Algerian sun, his touch is more Cezanni...