Victor Tardieu

was born in Lyon in 1870. From 1887 to 1889, he attended the School of Fine Arts of the city of Lyon, then studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts, the Bonnat studio from 1889 to 1891. Time in Paris, Victor Tardieu has had major works, the first of which was a painting made of stained glass at Dunkerque Town Hall. Many of his works are now exhibited in the Lyon, Rennes and Military Museums in Paris (Musée de l'Armée à Paris). At the age of 32, Tardieu won the national painting award for his large-scale work depicting workers on a construction site. Thanks to this award, he traveled to Europe for two years. He painted mainly about major port cities such as Gênes, London, Liverpool with the bustling and prosperous scene of Europe in the early 20th century. After that, he received decorative drawings for a number of great works of Lilas City Hall and several churches in France. During World War I, Tardieu participated in the battlefields of Northern France. In 1920, he received the Indochine Prize and the reward was a one-year trip to Indochina.
In 1921, Tardieu got off the train in Marseille to Vietnam. On February 2, 1921, Victor Tardieu arrived in Saigon and then went north to Hanoi. Here he accepted to paint a large picture for the main lecture hall of Indochina University under construction, a beautiful architecture that has just recovered and developed thanks to the educational reform program of Governor General Albert. Sarraut. It took Tardieu 6 years to work on that painting. In addition, he also painted decorations on the lobby wall and dome of the building, totaling nearly 270m².

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