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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (14 December 1824 – 24 October 1898) was a
Puvis de Chavannes's work is seen as
Puvis de Chavannes is best known for his
Puvis' career was tied up with a complicated debate that had been ongoing since the beginning of the Third Republic (1870), and at the end of the violence of the Paris Commune. The question at stake was the identity of France and the meaning of 'Frenchness'. Royalists felt that the revolution of 1789 had been an immense disaster and that France had been thrown off course, while the Republicans felt that the Revolution had allowed France to revert to its true course. Consequently, works that were to be displayed in public spaces, such as murals, had the important task of fulfilling the ideology of the commissioning party. Many scholars of Puvis's works have noted that his success as a 'painter for France' was largely due to his ability to create works which were agreeable to the many ideologies in existence at this time.
His first Parisian commission was for a cycle at the church of Saint Genevieve, which is now the secular Pantheon, begun in 1874. His two subjects were ''L'Education de Sainte Geneviève'' and ''La Vie Pastoral de Sainte Geneviève''. This commission was followed by works at the Sorbonne, namely the enormous hemicycle, ''The Sacred Grove'' or ''L'Ancienne Sorbonne'' amongst the muses in the Grand Amphitheater of the
File:Pierre puvis de chavannes, giovane nero con la spada, 1850.JPG, Jeune noir à l'épée (Black lad with a sword) (1850),
"Souvenirs sur Puvis de Chavannes"
''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', 6e période, tome XIII, janvier 1935, pp. 295-314. * Manuel Mayer: Die erträumte Kunst Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’. Eine Studie zum Verhältnis von Forschung und Kunstkritik im Angesicht einer Malerei zwischen Staffelei- und Wandbild. Hrsg.: ART Dok. Publikationsplattform Kunst- und Bildwissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2020. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7008/7/Mayer_Die_ertraeumte_Kunst_Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes_2020.pdf * Arcadia by the shore : the mythic world of Puvis de Chavannes, xhibotion Catalogue Katalog, Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo), Shimane Art Museum (Matsue) Aimée Brown-Price, with contribution by Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes, Tokyo/Matsue 2014. * Aimée Brown-Price Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 2 vols, New Haven/London 2010, Yale University Press. * Kerstin Thomas: Welt und Stimmung bei Puvis de Chavannes, Seurat und Gauguin, Passagen/Passages Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin/Munich 2010. * Puvis de Chavannes. Une voie singulière au siècle de l'Impressionnisme, xhibition Catalogue, Musée de Picardie Amiens Matthieu Pinette, Amiens 2005. * Jennifer L. Shaw Dream States. Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France, New Haven/London 2002. * From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: toward modern art, xhibition Catalogue, Palazzo Grassi Serge Lemoine, Venice 2002. * Puvis de Chavannes au musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, xhibition Catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon Dominique Brachlianoff, Lyon 1998. * Brian Petrie Puvis de Chavannes, Aldershot/Vermont 1997. * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, xhibition Catalogue, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Aimée Brown Price, Zwolle 1994. * Robinson, W.H., 1991, ‘Puvis de Chavannes’s ‘Summer’ and the Symbolist Avant-Garde’, ''The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art'', Vol. 78, No. 1 (Jan.) pp. 2–27 * Dictionnaire de la peinture française, Librairie Larousse, 1989/1991, Paris, * Stefan Germer Historizität und Autonomie. Studien zu Wandbildern im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ingres, Chassériau, Chenavard und Puvis de Chavannes, Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, vol 47, Hildesheim/Zurich/New York 1988. * Puvis de Chavannes. 1824–1898, xhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, Galerie nationale du Canada, Ottawa Secrétariat d'État à la Culture und Éditions des Musées Nationaux, Louise d'Argencourt (Ottawa) and Jacques Foucart (Paris), Paris 1976 / The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1977. * Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition, xhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario Richard J. Wattenmaker, Toronto/Ontario 1975. * Joseph Ishikawa Moderne Malgré Lui: The Phenomenon of Puvis de Chavannes, Art Journal 27:4, summer 1968. * Robert Goldwater Puvis de Chavannes. Some Reasons for a Reputation, Art Bulletin 28, March 1946. * René Jullian L'Oeuvre de jeunesse de Puvis de Chavannes, Gazette des beaux-arts, November 1938. * Levin, M.R., 1986, ''Republican Art and Ideology in Late Nineteenth Century France'', Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press * Russell T. Clement Four French Symbolists. A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis, Westport/London 1996.
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* * Jennifer A. Thompson,
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French
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painter
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known for his mural
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painting, who came to be known as "the painter for France". He became the co-founder and president of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
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, and his work influenced many other artists, notably Robert Genin
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, and he aided medallists by designs and suggestions for their works. Puvis de Chavannes was a prominent painter in the early Third Republic. Émile Zola
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described his work as "an art made of reason, passion, and will".
Early life and education
Puvis de Chavannes was born Pierre-Cécile Puvis in a suburb ofLyon
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, France, on December 14, 1824. He was the son of a mining engineer and descended from an old noble family of Burgundy
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. He later added the ancestral "de Chavannes" to his name. Throughout his life, he spurned his Lyon origins, preferring to identify himself with the 'strong' blood of the Burgundians, where his father originated.
Puvis de Chavannes was educated at the Amiens College and at the Lycée Henri IV
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in Paris
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. He intended to follow his father's profession until a serious illness compelled him to convalesce at Mâcon
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with his brother and sister-in-law in 1844 and 1845, which interrupted his studies. A journey to Italy opened his mind to fresh ideas, and on his return to Paris in 1846, he announced his intention to become a painter.
He studied first under Eugène Delacroix
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, but only very briefly, as Delacroix closed his studio shortly afterwards due to ill health. He studied subsequently under Henri Scheffer
Hendrik Scheffer (The Hague, 25 September 1798 – Paris, 15 March 1862) was a Dutch painter in the Romantic tradition who lived in France for most of his life. In France he is usually known as Henri Scheffer.
Personal life
Scheffer was the yo ...
and then Thomas Couture
Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works o ...
. His training was not classical as he found that he preferred to work alone. He took a large studio near the Gare de Lyon and attended anatomy classes at the Académie des Beaux Arts
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. It was not until a number of years later, when the government of France acquired one of his works, that he gained wide recognition.
In 1850, Puvis de Chavannes made his Salon debut with ''Dead Christ'', ''Jeune noir à l'épée (Black youth with a sword)'', ''The Reading Lesson'', and ''Portrait of a Man''.
Work
Puvis de Chavannes's work is seen as symbolist
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in nature, even though he studied with some of the romanticists
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, and he is credited with influencing an entire generation of painters and sculptors, particularly the works of the Modernists. One of his protégés was Georges de Feure
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.
Mural work
Puvis de Chavannes is best known for his mural
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painting, and came to be known as 'the painter for France.' His first commission was for his brother's chateau, Le Brouchy, a medieval-style structure near Cuiseaux in Saône-et-Loire. The principal decorations take the four seasons as their theme. His first public commissions came early in the 1860s, with work at the Musée de Picardie at Amiens. The first four works were ''Concordia'' (1861), ''Bellum'' (1861), ''Le Travail'' (Work; 1863) and ''Le Repos'' (Rest; 1863).
The regions
Over the course of his career, Puvis received a substantial number of commissions for works to be carried out in public and private institutions throughout France. His early work at the Musée de Picardie had helped him to develop his classicizing style, and the decorative aesthetic of his mural works. Among his public works are the later cycles completed at Amiens (''Ave Picardia Nutrix'', 1865), at Marseille, at Lyon and at Poitiers. Of particular importance is the cycle at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Lyon, which includes three significant works, filling the wall space in the main staircase. From left to right, the works are ''Antique Vision'' (1884), ''The Wood Dear to the Arts and the Muses'' (1884), and ''Christian Inspiration'' (1884).Paris
Puvis' career was tied up with a complicated debate that had been ongoing since the beginning of the Third Republic (1870), and at the end of the violence of the Paris Commune. The question at stake was the identity of France and the meaning of 'Frenchness'. Royalists felt that the revolution of 1789 had been an immense disaster and that France had been thrown off course, while the Republicans felt that the Revolution had allowed France to revert to its true course. Consequently, works that were to be displayed in public spaces, such as murals, had the important task of fulfilling the ideology of the commissioning party. Many scholars of Puvis's works have noted that his success as a 'painter for France' was largely due to his ability to create works which were agreeable to the many ideologies in existence at this time.
His first Parisian commission was for a cycle at the church of Saint Genevieve, which is now the secular Pantheon, begun in 1874. His two subjects were ''L'Education de Sainte Geneviève'' and ''La Vie Pastoral de Sainte Geneviève''. This commission was followed by works at the Sorbonne, namely the enormous hemicycle, ''The Sacred Grove'' or ''L'Ancienne Sorbonne'' amongst the muses in the Grand Amphitheater of the Sorbonne
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His final commission in this trinity of Republican commissions was the crowning glory of Puvis's career, the works ''Summer'' and ''Winter'', at the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) in Paris.
Many of these works are characterized by their nod to classical art, visible in the careful balanced compositions, and the subject matter is frequently a direct reference to visions of Hellenistic Greece, particularly in the case of ''Antique Vision''.
Works on canvas
Puvis de Chavannes was president and co-founder in 1890 of the ''Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
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'' (''National Society of Fine Arts'') founded in Paris. It became the dominant salon of art at the time and held exhibitions of contemporary art that was selected only by a jury composed of the officers of the Société.
Those who translated best the spirit of the work of Puvis de Chavannes in their own creations were, in Germany, the painter Ludwig von Hofmann
Ludwig von Hofmann (17 August 1861 – 23 August 1945) was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. He worked in a combination of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1 ...
and in France, Auguste Rodin
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.
His easel paintings also may be found in many American and European galleries. Some of these paintings are:
*''Death and the Maiden''
*''The Dream''
*''The Poor Fisherman'', 1881, oil on canvas
*''Vigilance''
*''The Meditation''
*''Mary Magdalene at Saint Baume''
*''Saint Genoveva''
*''Young Girls at the Seaside'', 1879, oil on canvas
*''Mad Woman at the Edge of the Sea''
*''Hope''
*''Hope (nude)''
*''Kneeling nude woman, viewed from back''
* ''The Sacred Grove''
As far as the appreciation of his life's work is concerned, Puvis de Chavannes was never properly understood by his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career, art criticism was divided into two camps. Adored by the idealists, he was despised by the partisans of the realists. Only with the advent of Symbolism did these two camps unite, but without achieving a convincing appreciation of the painter. Today's research has inherited this contradiction of art criticism and therefore still does not offer a convincing presentation of Puvis de Chavanne's art.
Personal life
InMontmartre
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, he had an affair with one of his models, Suzanne Valadon
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, who would become one of the leading artists of the day as well as the mother, teacher, and mentor of Maurice Utrillo
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. From 1856, he was in a relationship with the Romanian princess, Marie Cantacuzène
Marie Cantacuzène (20 July 1820 – 29 August 1898) was a Romanian princess and painter's model, and wife of the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
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. The couple were together for 40 years, and were married before their deaths in 1898.
Puvis de Chavannes Prize
Beginning in 1926, The ''Prix Puvis de Chavannes
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'' (Puvis de Chavannes prize) was awarded by the National Society of Fine Arts (''Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
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1862
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''). The ''Prix Puvis de Chavannes'' is the retrospective exhibition in Paris of the main works of the artist awarded the prize that year. During the twentieth century, this exhibition was located at the Grand Palais
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or the ''Musée d'Art Moderne''. Recipients of the prize include:
* 1941: Wilhem Van Hasselt
* 1944: Jean Gabriel Domergue
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* 1948: Joseph Pinchon
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* 1952: Tristan Klingsor
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* 1955: Georges Delplanque Georges may refer to:
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* 1957: Albert Decaris
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* 1958: Jean Picard Le Doux
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* 1963: Maurice Boitel
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,
* 1966: Pierre Gaillardot
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* 1968: Pierre-Henry
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* 1970: Daniel du Janerand
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* 1971: Jean-Pierre Alaux
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* 1975: Jean Monneret
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* 1987: André Hambourg
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* 1991: Gaston Sébire
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* 1993: Jean Cluseau-Lanauve
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* 2006: Paul Collomb
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Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
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, Biennale 1991, Grand Palais, année du centenaire, catalogue pages 8 and 9
Gallery
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File:Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1863, Le Travail, Musée de Picardie.jpg, ''Le Travail'' (1863), Musée de Picardie
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File:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 004.jpg, ''The White Rocks'' (1869–1872)
File:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 007.jpg, ''Hope'' (1872), Walters Art Museum
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File:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003.jpg, ''The Dream'' (1883), Walters Art Museum
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File:Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - "Ludus Pro Patria" - Walters 3716.jpg, ''Ludus Pro Patria'' (1883), Walters Art Museum
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File:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 001.jpg, '' The Shepherd's Song'' (1891)
File:Poorfisherman.JPG, ''The Poor Fisherman'' (1881), Musée d'Orsay
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File:Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - Study for Patriotism - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Study for Patriotism'' (ca. 1893)
See also
*Symbolism (arts)
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* Boston Public Library
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* List of European art awards
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* Les Maîtres de l'Affiche
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References
Sources
*Further reading
* Paul Baudoüin"Souvenirs sur Puvis de Chavannes"
''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', 6e période, tome XIII, janvier 1935, pp. 295-314. * Manuel Mayer: Die erträumte Kunst Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’. Eine Studie zum Verhältnis von Forschung und Kunstkritik im Angesicht einer Malerei zwischen Staffelei- und Wandbild. Hrsg.: ART Dok. Publikationsplattform Kunst- und Bildwissenschaften der Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2020. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/7008/7/Mayer_Die_ertraeumte_Kunst_Pierre_Puvis_de_Chavannes_2020.pdf * Arcadia by the shore : the mythic world of Puvis de Chavannes, xhibotion Catalogue Katalog, Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo), Shimane Art Museum (Matsue) Aimée Brown-Price, with contribution by Bertrand Puvis de Chavannes, Tokyo/Matsue 2014. * Aimée Brown-Price Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 2 vols, New Haven/London 2010, Yale University Press. * Kerstin Thomas: Welt und Stimmung bei Puvis de Chavannes, Seurat und Gauguin, Passagen/Passages Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin/Munich 2010. * Puvis de Chavannes. Une voie singulière au siècle de l'Impressionnisme, xhibition Catalogue, Musée de Picardie Amiens Matthieu Pinette, Amiens 2005. * Jennifer L. Shaw Dream States. Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France, New Haven/London 2002. * From Puvis de Chavannes to Matisse and Picasso: toward modern art, xhibition Catalogue, Palazzo Grassi Serge Lemoine, Venice 2002. * Puvis de Chavannes au musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, xhibition Catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts Lyon Dominique Brachlianoff, Lyon 1998. * Brian Petrie Puvis de Chavannes, Aldershot/Vermont 1997. * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, xhibition Catalogue, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Aimée Brown Price, Zwolle 1994. * Robinson, W.H., 1991, ‘Puvis de Chavannes’s ‘Summer’ and the Symbolist Avant-Garde’, ''The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art'', Vol. 78, No. 1 (Jan.) pp. 2–27 * Dictionnaire de la peinture française, Librairie Larousse, 1989/1991, Paris, * Stefan Germer Historizität und Autonomie. Studien zu Wandbildern im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ingres, Chassériau, Chenavard und Puvis de Chavannes, Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, vol 47, Hildesheim/Zurich/New York 1988. * Puvis de Chavannes. 1824–1898, xhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, Galerie nationale du Canada, Ottawa Secrétariat d'État à la Culture und Éditions des Musées Nationaux, Louise d'Argencourt (Ottawa) and Jacques Foucart (Paris), Paris 1976 / The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1977. * Puvis de Chavannes and The Modern Tradition, xhibition Catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario Richard J. Wattenmaker, Toronto/Ontario 1975. * Joseph Ishikawa Moderne Malgré Lui: The Phenomenon of Puvis de Chavannes, Art Journal 27:4, summer 1968. * Robert Goldwater Puvis de Chavannes. Some Reasons for a Reputation, Art Bulletin 28, March 1946. * René Jullian L'Oeuvre de jeunesse de Puvis de Chavannes, Gazette des beaux-arts, November 1938. * Levin, M.R., 1986, ''Republican Art and Ideology in Late Nineteenth Century France'', Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press * Russell T. Clement Four French Symbolists. A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis, Westport/London 1996.
External links
Commercial Art Gallery Guide
* * Jennifer A. Thompson,
''Peace'' and ''War'' by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (cat. 1062,1063)
" in
The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works
', a Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication {{DEFAULTSORT:Puvis De Chavannes, Pierre 1824 births 1898 deaths Artists from Lyon 19th-century French painters French male painters French Symbolist painters Lycée Henri-IV alumni Art educators Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur Artists of the Boston Public Library Symbolism (arts) Burials at Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery 19th-century French male artists