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Léopold Flameng
Léopold Flameng (22 November 1831, Brussels – 5 September 1911, Courgent) was a French engraver, illustrator and painter. Biography His parents were from France, and he began his artistic studies in Paris with Luigi Calamatta and Jean Gigoux. His engraving skills were noticed by Charles Blanc, and his collaboration with his fellow engraver, Léon Gaucherel, in the ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' and ''L'Artiste'', helped to ensure his reputation. and elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1898. His numerous students included Richard Geiger, Auguste Laguillermie, and Paul Adolphe Rajon, as well as his son, François. Gallery File:Léopold Flameng - Charles Meryon.jpg, Charles Meryon on His Sick Bed (1858) File:Marguérite bij de fontein Marguerite a la fontaine (titel op object), RP-P-1910-3243.jpg, Marguérite at the Fountain (after Scheffer) File:Léopold Flameng - Lectures pour tous.jpg, Cover of ''Lectures Pour Tous'' (1911) File:Léopold Flameng - Puvis d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Scarron
Paul Scarron (c. 1 July 1610 in Paris – 6 October 1660 in Paris) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise birth date is unknown, he was baptized on 4 July 1610. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné, who later became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV of France. Life Scarron was the seventh child of Paul Scarron, a noble of the robe and member of the Parlement of Paris, and Gabrielle Goguet. Paul became an abbé when he was nineteen. He lived in Le Mans from 1632 to 1640, and in 1635 traveled to Rome with his patron, Charles de Beaumanoir, the bishop of Le Mans. Finding a patron in Marie de Hautefort, maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIII, he became a well-known figure in literary and fashionable society. In 1638, Scarron became disabled. One source ( Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle, ''Memoires... de Mme de Maintenon'') attributed Scarron's deformities to rheumatism co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Flameng
François Flameng (1856–1923) was a notable French painter during the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th. He was the son of Léopold Flameng, a celebrated printmaker, and received a first-rate education in his craft. Work Flameng initially received renown for his history painting and portraiture, and became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He decorated such important civic buildings as the Sorbonne and the Opera Comique, and also produced advertising work. Flameng was granted France's highest civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur, and designed France's first bank notes. He was also made an honorary Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1908 Birthday Honours. Flameng later received renown for his painting of World War I. He was named honorary president of the Society of Military Painters and an accredited documenter for the War Ministry. His work was displayed in the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, as well as being reproduced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Adolphe Rajon
Paul-Adolphe Rajon (1843 – 8 June 1888) was a French painter and printmaker, who started his career as a photographer. Early life Born at Dijon, Rajon was the third child of Jean Marie Rajon, a hairdresser, by his marriage with Caroline Jaugey, a shop girl some thirty years younger. They had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1839, and another son, Charles Henri, born in 1840. He died on 8 June 1888 at Auvers-sur-Oise, of pneumonia. Selected works File:Félix Bracquemond by Paul Rajon.jpg, Portrait of Félix Bracquemond (1878) File:Paul Adolphe Rajon - Portrait of Henry Walters - Walters 372545.jpg, portrait of Henry Walters Henry Walters (September 26, 1848 – November 30, 1931) was noted as an art collector and philanthropist, a founder of the Walters Art Gallery (now the Walters Art Museum) in Baltimore, Maryland, which he donated to the city in his 1931 will f ..., 1886. File:Paul Adolphe Rajon - Portrait of William T Walters - Walters 372542.jpg, portrait of William T. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Laguillermie
Frédéric-Auguste Laguillermie (27 March 1841, Paris – 14 December 1934, Paris) was a French etcher and painter. He was one of the founders of the . Biography He was born to Eugénie, née Hime, and Frédéric-Guillaume Laguillermie (1805–1870), an engraver and printer, who was the associate cartographer for Victor Levasseur (cartographer), Victor Levasseur. He received his initial training in his father's studio then, in 1861, entered the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied etching with Léopold Flameng, and painting with William Bouguereau. In 1862, he became one of the first members of the original , founded by Alfred Cadart, who published several of his early plates. His first exhibit at the Salon (Paris), Salon came in 1863. He won the Prix de Rome in 1866, for his Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio work, and spent four years at the Villa Medici.Jules Martin (Ed.), '' Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs…'', Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1897, pg.228Online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Geiger
Richard Geiger (29 June 1870 – 9 February 1945) was an Austrian painter. Initially he worked for a Hungarian weekly magazine. By the 1920s, he worked illustrating books, bookplates and posters. His paintings included portraits, nudes, genre paintings, and mythological scenes, but he was known for his illustrations, especially his carnival motifs. Background Geiger was born in Vienna, into a Hungarian Jewish family. His parents were Antal Geiger and Jozefin Wahringer. He first attended a drawing school and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied under Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger. He studied sculpture with Fritz Klimsch at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. There he took part in the exhibitions of the Academy with his portrait busts and sculptures. In Paris he studied at the Julian Academy and worked in the studio of François Flameng. While at the Julian Academy, he focused on painting scenes from the life of the clochards. From 1893 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Académie Des Beaux-Arts
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. Etymology The word comes from the ''Academy'' in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, ''Akademos''. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". In these gardens, the philosopher Plato conversed with followers. Plato developed his sessions into a method of teaching philosophy and in 387 BC, established what is known today as the Old Academy. By extension, ''academia'' has come to mean the accumulation, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Base Léonore
''Base Léonore'', or the Léonore database, is a French database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases s ... that lists the records of the members of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. The database lists the records of those inducted into the Legion of Honor since its 1802 inception and who died before 1977. , the database contained 390,000 records. References External links * Archives in France History websites of France Online databases Recipients of the Legion of Honour {{database-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legion Of Honor
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, it has been retained (with occasional slight alterations) by all later French governments and regimes. The order's motto is ' ("Honour and Fatherland"); its seat is the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur next to the Musée d'Orsay, on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. The order is divided into five degrees of increasing distinction: ' (Knight), ' (Officer), ' (Commander), ' (Grand Officer) and ' (Grand Cross). History Consulate During the French Revolution, all of the French orders of chivalry were abolished and replaced with Weapons of Honour. It was the wish of Napoleon Bonaparte, the First Consul, to create a reward to commend civilians and soldiers. From this wish was instituted a , a body of men that was not an orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société D'aquarellistes Français
The Société d'aquarellistes français ( en, Society of French Watercolourists), often in uncontracted form as Société des aquarellistes français, was an association of painters in watercolour in nineteenth-century France. It held annual exhibitions of works by members; the first of these was held in the gallery of Paul Durand-Ruel at 16 rue Laffitte, Paris, in 1879. The society ceased to be active in 1896. Members In 1879, the honorary members of the society were: * Prince de Joinville * Édouard André * Emmanuel Bocher * Maurice Cottier * Auguste Dreyfus * Alexandre Dumas * Viscount Étienne de Ganay * Viscount Henri Greffulhe * Alfred Hartmann * Baron Edmond de Rothschild * Count Samuel Welles de la Valette In 1879, the ordinary members were: * Henri Baron * Charles-Édouard de Beaumont * Édouard Detaille * Gustave Doré * François-Louis Français * Ferdinand Heilbuth * Eugène Isabey * Jules Jacquemart * Roger Jourdain * Louis-Eugène Lambert * Eugène Lami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parnassianism
Parnassianism (or Parnassism) was a French literary style that began during the positivist period of the 19th century, occurring after romanticism and prior to symbolism. The style was influenced by the author Théophile Gautier as well as by the philosophical ideas of Arthur Schopenhauer. Origins and name The name is derived from the original Parnassian poets' journal, '' Le Parnasse contemporain'', itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses of Greek mythology. The anthology was first issued in 1866 and again in 1869 and 1876, including poems by Charles Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Sully Prudhomme, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, François Coppée, Nina de Callias, and José María de Heredia. The Parnassians were influenced by Théophile Gautier and his doctrine of " art for art's sake". As a reaction to the less-disciplined types of romantic poetry and what they considered the excessive sentimentality and undue social and political activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exposition Universelle (1878)
The third Paris World's Fair, called an Exposition Universelle in French, was held from 1 May to 10 November 1878. It celebrated the recovery of France after the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War. Construction The buildings and the fairgrounds were somewhat unfinished on opening day, as political complications had prevented the French government from paying much attention to the exhibition until six months before it was due to open. However, efforts made in April were prodigious, and by 1 June, a month after the formal opening, the exhibition was finally completed. This exposition was on a far larger scale than any previously held anywhere in the world. It covered over , the main building in the Champ de Mars and the hill of Chaillot, occupying . The Gare du Champ de Mars was rebuilt with four tracks to receive rail traffic occasioned by the exposition. The Pont d'Iéna linked the two exhibition sites along the central allée. The French exhibits filled one-half of the enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
