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François Souchon
François Souchon (1787 – 5 April 1857) was a French painter. Early years François Souchon was born in Alais, Gard, in 1787. In 1809 he went to Paris to study painting. His father gave him a very small allowance while he was studying. He became a pupil of Jacques-Louis David, the famous painter of historical scenes. Through the influence of M. De Lascour he was able to find work in the houses of several leading personages teaching art to their children. These included Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Lafayette, Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, Maubourg and Lasteyrie, and Lasteyrie's son-in-law the Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Later he taught in the houses of the Duke of Rovigo, the Prince of San Carlo and Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Marshall Sébastiani. Paris after the Restoration After the Hundred Days for some time Souchon lost the employment he had enjoyed with the leading families of the First French Empire, but soon after the second Bourbon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Colas
Alphonse-Victor Colas (25 September 1818, Lille - 11 July 1887, Lille) was a French painter and art teacher. He specialized in portraits and religious art. Life and work He was the fifth of seven children born to Jean-Joseph Colas (1779–1858), a tax official, charged with collecting the "contributions directes" in Verlinghem, and his wife, Adélaïde Thérèse née Leprêts (1786–1838).Alphonse Colas @ Geneanet He enrolled at the in 1834. Four years later, he studied with François Souchon"Alphonse Colas peintre d'histoire 1818-1887", Archives du Nord Online In 1842, his depiction of the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence earned him a scholarship to study in Rome, at the . During hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nord Department (France)
Nord (; officially ; ; , ) is a département in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium. It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai. The modern coat of arms was inherited from the County of Flanders. Nord is the country's most populous département. It had a population of 2,608,346 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 59 Nord INSEE It also contains the metropolitan region of (the main city and the of the |
Carolus-Duran
Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (4 July 1837 – 17 February 1917), was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of Upper class, high society in French Third Republic, Third Republic France. Biography The son of a hotel owner, his first drawing lessons were with a local sculptor named Augustin-Phidias Cadet de Beaupré (1800–?) at the Academy of Lille, Académie de Lille; then took up painting with François Souchon, a student of Jacques-Louis David. He went to Paris in 1853, where he adopted the name "Carolus-Duran". In 1859, he had his first exhibition at the Salon (Paris), Salon. That same year, he began attending the Académie Suisse, where he studied until 1861. One of his early influences was the Realism (art), Realism of Gustave Courbet. From 1862 to 1866, he travelled to Rome and Spain, thanks to a scholarship granted by his hometown. During that time, he moved away from Courbet's style and became mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste-Joseph Herlin
Auguste-Joseph Herlin (18 August 1815 – 13 December 1900) was a French genre painter from Lille. Life Auguste-Joseph Herlin was born in Lille on 18 August 1815. His parents were Joseph Herlin and Julie Desrousseaux, both from Lille. His father was a merchant. After completing his studies at the local college he joined his father's business. He and his brother Théodore jointly managed the business. Between 1840 and 1848 he followed his marked penchant for the arts, and studied painting under François Souchon. He won two medals, including a first class medal in 1843. In 1850 Herlin resigned from business and devoted himself to the arts. With independent means, he was not dependent on his work to make a living and could paint what he wanted. Herlin's paintings belonged to the school of Édouard Muller. He excelled both in his drawing and his use of color. His ''Visite au confrère'', which drew much attention at the Lille Exhibition after it returned from the Salon of Paris, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyacinthe Besson
Jean-Baptiste Besson (known as Frère Hyacinthe Besson; 10 March 1816 – 4 May 1861) was a French painter and missionary priest. Early years Jean-Baptiste Besson was born and was baptized on 10 March 1816 in Rans in the Jura. He was the natural son of Anne-Charlotte Desiree Besson, aged thirty, by an unknown father. He appears to have spent his first years at the home of his maternal grandfather, a landowner, who lost his fortune through the dishonesty of a relative. His mother took him to Besançon, where she found work as a hotel maid. She then walked to Paris and found work with an old American lady on the rue des Trois Frères, halfway up the Montmartre hill, with a room in the attic. Her employer died in 1828 and left her maid a small legacy. Besson's mother found a new position with the Abbé Leclair, priest of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. The old priest gave Mme Besson the task of distributing the alms that he received, which were considerable. Besson was enrolled in a sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Auguste Jeanron
Philippe-Auguste Jeanron (10 May 1809 – 8 April 1877) was a French painter, curator and writer. Throughout his life he was a passionate republican. His genre pictures typically depicted common people. He opposed the July Monarchy. After the February Revolution of 1848 was made head of National Museums and Director of the Louvre, where he introduced important innovations in the preservation, classification and arrangement of the collections. Later he became director of the museum in Marseilles. Early years Philippe-Auguste Jeanron was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer on 10 May 1809. His grandfather had been a revolutionary who participated in the storming of the Bastille. He was born in the military camp at Boulogne, where his father was Nicolas Jeanron, a shoemaker for the troops of the Emperor. Nicolas Jeanron was taken prisoner by the English in August 1809 and imprisoned on the hulks of Portsmouth. He was later joined there by his wife Marguerite and their children, Philippe and Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honoré Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830 to the Second French Empire#Downfall, fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as ''La Caricature (1830–1843), La Caricature'' and ''Le Charivari'', for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat (working class liberal), who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, aristocracy, clergy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, police, detectives, the wealthy, the military, the bourgeoisie, as well as his countrymen and human nature in general. Daumier was a serious painter, loosely associated with Realism (art movement), realism, sometimes blurring the boundaries between caricature and fine art. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (20 August 180718 November 1876) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Early life Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where he had been taken to live with some friends of his mother. The bite was poorly dressed, and ultimately he lost his leg. However, as it turned out, the wooden stump that replaced his leg became famous. At fifteen he entered the studios at Sèvres, first working on the decoration of porcelain and later turning to painting. Turkish and Oriental scenes attracted him, and he took to painting Eastern figures dressed in richly coloured garments; many of these paintings remain extant. He also spent much time at Barbizon school, Barbizon, near the Fontainebleau Forest, where some of his most famous paintings were made. One of his teachers and friends in Paris was François S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Lille
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille (''Lille Palace of Fine Arts'') is a municipal museum dedicated to fine arts, modern art, and antiquities located in Lille. It is one of the largest art museums in France. It was one of the first museums built in France, established under the instructions of Napoleon I at the beginning of the 19th century as part of the popularisation of art. Jean-Antoine Chaptal's decree of 1801 selected fifteen French cities (among them Lille) to receive the works seized from churches and from the European territories occupied by the armies of Revolutionary France. The painters Louis Joseph Watteau and François Watteau, known as the "Watteau of Lille", were heavily involved in the museum's beginnings - Louis Joseph Watteau made in 1795 the first inventory of the paintings confiscated during the Revolution, whilst his son François was deputy curator of the museum from 1808 to 1823. The museum opened in 1809 and was initially housed in a church confiscated from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bondues
Bondues (; ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Since 1997, Bondues has housed a Museum devoted to the Resistance of the Nord-Pas de Calais region. The Fort of Bondues, also known as Fort Lobau, was built near the confluence of the Marque and Deûle rivers, by General Séré de Rivières, from 1877 to 1880. It is an element of the chain of forts and fortifications constituting the defence system around Lille. It was the place of execution of 68 members of the resistance in 1943/4. Population Heraldry International relations Bondues is twinned with: * Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England (since 1992) * Wülfrath, Germany (since 2003) Sports FC Bondues is a local soccer club. Merge between the historical US Bondues and the CJ Bondues. President Herbaux and his crew help with the continual growth of the club which will compete at the highest level yet in 2023 in the R1 division. Legends of the club are: Martin Colpaert, Kevin Jehu, Jean Decru, Arn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loos, Nord
Loos () is a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department in northern France (Hauts-de-France). It is located in the Métropole Européenne de Lille, European Metropolis of Lille, and is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its southwest side. In 2018, Loos had a population of 22,426. The commune has a land area of . The town hall of Loos, with its large belfry, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005 in recognition of its historical importance to municipal power in Europe. Population Heraldry Town twinning Loos is twinned with Geseke, Germany. See also *Communes of the Nord department References External links Official website Communes of Nord (French department) French Flanders {{LilleArrondissement-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Claiming to be acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who transcended gender roles and gained recognition as a savior of France. Joan was born to a propertied peasant family at Domrémy-la-Pucelle, Domrémy in northeast France. In 1428, she requested to be taken to Charles VII, later testifying that she was guided by visions from the archangel Michael, Margaret the Virgin, Saint Margaret, and Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Catherine to help him save France from English domination. Convinced of her devotion and purity, Charles sent Joan, who was about seventeen years old, to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief army. She arrived at the city in April 1429, wielding her banner a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
