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Painting 23 may 1953 Place of birth: Aveyron, France Pierre Soulages, a French painter, was one of the major abstractionists of the School of Paris. His work was characterized by broad strokes of paint that created a tonality of light and dark and by a subdued palette. After graduating from high school in 1938, Soulages went to Paris. He enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study ...

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Jean Fouquet

Mary and child Place of birth: Tours, France Jean Fouquet was the most famous French painter of his day. But historical records give us very scarce information about his life and work. Documentary sources of the 15th and 16th centuries show that he was a painter of international repute. Fouguet probably received instruction in the illumination of manuscripts under Flemish-Burgundian ...

French painter | manuscripts |

Georges de la Tour

Place of birth: Vic sur Seille, France French painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his modern reputation as a giant of French painting. The son of a baker, he is first documented as a painter in his native Vic at the time of ...

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Lebourg Albert-Marie-Charles

Albert-Marie-Charles Lebourg (1 February 1849 - 7 January 1928), French painter. At first he was mostly interested into architecture and studied with Drouin at the Ecole Municipale de Dessin in Rouen , but gradually became atracted to art. With the help of Drouin he met the landscape painter Victor Delamarre, who gave him his first lessons. Lebourg would then quit architecture and ...

French painter | Monet | Sisley | Netherlands |

Fujita Tsuguharu Leonard

Tsuguharu Leonard Fujita (27 November 1886 - 29 January 1968), French painter of Japanese origin, he was one of the most popular characters in Montparnasse . A friend of Modigliani and Soutine, he was apreciated for his works, especially his nudes, being considered one of the most talented draftsmen of his generation. Born in Tokyo , he attended the Art School (n ow Tokyo ...

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Coypel Noel-Nicolas

Noel-Nicolas Coypel (17 November 1690 - 14 December 1734), French painter. He was from an artistic family, the second son of Noel Coypel, a rather succesful artist. He proved to be the most talented of the two sons, but lacked the originality and ideas, and so he was aleays in the shadow of Antoine, his successful stepbrother. Coypel worked in a charming and popular style, producing ...

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Baudry Paul-Jacques-Aime

Paul-Jacques-Aime Baudry (7 November 1828 - 17 January 1886), French painter. As many other young painters of his generation, which came from French provinces, Baudry was sent to Paris on a grant offered by the municipality, to start serious training as an artist. At first he worked in the studio of Michel-Martin Drolling, in 1844, and a year later he began his studies at the Ecole ...

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Michallon Achille Etna

Achille Etna Michallon (24 October 1796 - 24 September 1822), French painter. He was the son of Claude Michallon, a sculptor who had won the famous Prix de Rome in 1785. He grew up at the Louvre, where his family had a small apartment, near his father's studio. By the age of six, Achille moved with his family to Sorbonne. A precocius and impressive talent, he worked in the ...

French painter | landscapes | Camille Corot |

Le Prince Jean-Baptiste

Born on 17 September 1734: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French painter, draftsman and printmaker, who died on 30 September 1781. Two influences were paramount for Le Prince: his teacher François Boucher and his stay in Russia. Born to a family of ornamental sculptors and gilders, Le Prince began studying under Boucher about 1750. His master's tightly controlled brushwork and highly ...

French painter | Siberia | tapestry | countryside |

Coypel Charles-Antoine

Born on 11 July 1694: Charles~Antoine Coypel, French painter, tapestry designer, writer who died on 14 March 1752, grandson of Noël Coypel, half-nephew of Noël-Nicolas Coypel [1690-1734] Coypel had precocious success as a painter, as his father and teacher Antoine Coypel [1661-1722] was the Premier Peintre du Roi. Upon his father's death in 1722, Charles inherited the elder ...

French painter | design | Versailles | tapestries |

Vignon Claude

Born on 19 May 1593: Claude Vignon, French painter and engraver who died on 10 May 1670. Vignon was born in Tours and active mainly in Paris. His richly eclectic style was formed mainly in Italy, where he worked from 1616 to 1622, and his openness to very diverse influences was later fueled by his activities as a picture dealer. Paradoxically, in view of his varied sources of ...

French painter | Claude Vignon |

Saint-Aubin Gabriel Jacques de

Gabriel Jacques de Saint~Aubin, French painter, draftsman. ( 14 April 1724 - 14 February 1780). Son of royal embroiderer Gabriel-Germain de Saint~Aubin [1696-1756], brother of Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin [17 Jan 1721 – 06 Mar 1786], Augustin de Saint~Aubin [03 Jan 1736 – 09 Nov 1807] and Sèvres porcelain designer, Louis~Michel de Saint~Aubin. Saint-Aubin studied ...

French painter | Voltaire |

Labille-Guiard Adelaide

Born on 11 April 1749: Adelaïde Labille-Guiard, French Neoclassical painter who died on 24 April 1803, specialized in portraits. Portrait of a woman She first was trained (1763) by the miniature painter Francois-Elie Vincent [1708-1790], whose studio was next door to her father’s shop. By 1769 she had obtained membership in the Académie de Saint-Luc, no doubt ...

pastel | French painter |

Henri Rousseau, exhibition at the Tate Modern

Henri Rousseau, French painter (1844-1910) was a late starter, getting the brushes out when he 40 years old and didn't go to art school. An exhibition is on at the Tate Modern in the United Kingdom between November 3 and February 5, 2006. There will be 50 works by Henri Rousseau, the first exhibition by the artist in the United Kingdom for eighty years!

French painter | Henri Rousseau |

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