J. F. Roux
Roux thought that the act of artistic creation resides in the decisions that the artist makes about what to leave out from the represented world, so that a painting is the product of the artist’s considered choices about what forms and colours to emphasise. There are some early paintings at Langebaan of fishing boats and later, from a trip with Margot to Sicily, of dwellings. Roux was also commissioned on occasion to paint pictures of farm houses. But on the whole, his landscapes represent nature in all its timelessness, stripped of any trace of human intervention.
Constant Roux
In 1898, Roux submitted the work "Pourquoi naître esclave" to the Salon des Artistes Français, sending it from Rome and this was awarded a bronze medal. In 1900 he submitted the composition "L'amour au guet" to the Éxposition Universelle, again winning bronze. 1910 saw his work for the façade of the Institut de paléontologie humaine in Paris and for his work "Nicolas Poussin" submitted to the Salon in that year he was awarded a gold medal. After the war he was commissioned to work on various war memorials. He died in Marseille in 1942.