DORAN (Albert). The chapel of Roselend. Circa 1935. Oil on board, signed lower right, 32 x 44 cm, framed (defects to the frame). Beautiful late winter view of the Roselend chapel, before the creation of the dam. Albert Doran was the pseudonym of Marie Couturier, wife of Albert Grenetier, born in Lyon in 1892. Convinced that a woman could not make her mark in the "Alpine" artistic milieu of the time, she chose to take her husband's first name and the name of a proud mountain peak overlooking Modane, in the Haute-Maurienne. A pupil of the Lyonnais painter and watercolourist Antoine Barbier, she quickly became a recognised mountain painter, a member of the Artistes français and a member of the Société des peintres de montagne. In 1937, she was awarded the gold medal of the Lyon Fine Arts Society and later became a member of the jury of this association. In 1938, she used her paintings and watercolours to illustrate Maurice Paillon's three-volume work describing the French Alps: Savoie, Dauphiné and Provence.