Jules Émile ZINGG (1882-1942). "Les fortifs". Oil on panel signed lower left, titled and located in Paris on the back (yellowed varnish). Height 25 cm - Width 33 cm Provenance: the artist's descendants. Jules Emile ZINGG entered Fernand CORMON's studio at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1902. He specialized in landscape painting and was named second prizewinner of the Prix de Rome in 1911. From 1926 and the creation of the "Société Belfortaine des Beaux-Arts", major exhibitions were organized at Belfort museums, where his works were exhibited alongside those of Anders OSTERLIND, René-Xavier PRINET and Georges FRESET.