Marquet, Pierre Albert (1875–1947)

French painter. One of the leading figures of fauvism, he painted landscapes and Parisian scenes, chiefly the River Seine and its bridges. He later developed a more conventional, naturalistic style.

He went to Paris 1890 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, later meeting Matisse, with whom he often painted on the banks of the Seine. In his many paintings of towns, harbours, and rivers he showed a particular gift of simplification which seized unerringly upon the essentials in the scene before him.