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Alfred Philippe Roll (1 March 1846 – 27 October 1919) was a French painter.
His 1875 painting of " The Flood at Toulouse" attracted huge attention, and it is now in the Musée Malraux (Le Havre). All of his early work was romantic style, but was influenced by other styles including
File:Roll silenus.jpg, ''Le Triomphe de Silène'' (1871), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand
File:Alfred roll self portrait.jpg, ''Autoportrait'' (vers 1875), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
File:Le Petit Palais - Alfred Roll - Esquisse - Le 14 juillet 1880, inauguration du monument à la république - vers 1881 - 001.jpg, ''Le 14 juillet 1880, inauguration du Notice de l'œuvre sur le site du Petit Palais.
(French) File:Alfred-Philippe Roll Milk.jpg, ''Manda Lamétrie, fermière'' (1887),
Alfred Philippe Roll exhibition catalog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roll, Alfred Philippe 1846 births 1919 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 19th-century French male artists
Career
Roll studied atÉcole des Beaux-Arts
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, where he was taught by Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂ´me
Jean-Léon Gérôme (; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academic painting, academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living art ...
, Henri-Joseph Harpignies
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (; June 28, 1819 – August 28, 1916) was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school.
Life
He was born at Valenciennes. His parents intended for him to pursue a business career, but his determination to becom ...
, Charles-François Daubigny
Charles-François Daubigny ( , , ; 15 February 181719 February 1878) was a French painter, one of the members of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of impressionism.
He was also a prolific printmaker, mostly in etching ...
and LĂ©on Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Early life
Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 ...
. He painted his first landscape in 1869, and in 1870 exhibited " Environs of Baccarat" and "Evening
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" at Salon-de-Provence
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. During the Franco-Prussian war
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 Janua ...
, he was a lieutenant of militia.
His 1875 painting of " The Flood at Toulouse" attracted huge attention, and it is now in the Musée Malraux (Le Havre). All of his early work was romantic style, but was influenced by other styles including Bolognese
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and Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( ; ; ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the ...
. In 1877 he exhibited ''Fete of Silenus'' at Salon, which is now at the Ghent Museum
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The museum's collection consists of some 9000 artworks, dating from the Middle Ages t ...
. It was at this point Roll decided to devote his work to painting everyday life, and his style changed as well to a more realist one.
He began to paint portraits, and with his 1880 painting ''Miner's Strike'', he became one of France's highest ranked painters of the day; he was extremely successful for the rest of his working life. He became an official painter of the French Government. and was commissioned to paint numerous art pieces, including those of murals, ceilings, and other building decoration. ''President Carnot at Versailles at the Centenary of the Etats Generaux'', now at Versailles Palace, and ''The Tzar and President Faure laying the Foundation Stone of the Alexandre III Bridge'' are two such paintings, and ''The Pleasures of Life'' and ''The Rosetime of Youth'' were both for the Hotel de Ville. Many of his paintings are in public art galleries, including the Hotel de Ville museum, the Cognac Museum, Avignon Museum, Laval Museum, Fontainebleau Palace, Pau Museum, and the Museum of Geneva. In 1905 he became the president of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, which he co-founded. Jules Ernest Renoux
Jules Alphonse Ernest Renoux (5 May 1863 – 9 June 1932) was a French painter working during the height of French Impressionism and the Belle Epoque.
Training and career
Renoux was the son of Jules Alphonse Renoux and Ernestine Veron. He s ...
was one of his pupils.
In the 1880s Roll "discovered" the Bordeaux artist Alfred Smith, a painter in the style of Courbet and Corot, promoting Smith's work and helping him in his career.
Gallery
monument Ă la RĂ©publique
The ''Monument Ă la RĂ©publique'' (), also called ''Statue de la RĂ©publique'' (), is a Monumental sculpture, made by the sculptor LĂ©opold Morice. Inaugurated in 1883 on the Place de la RĂ©publique in Paris, it represents Marianne, an alleg ...
'' (vers 1882), Petit Palais
The (; ) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Built for the Exposition Universelle (1900), 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (''Musée des beaux-arts ...
, Paris(French) File:Alfred-Philippe Roll Milk.jpg, ''Manda Lamétrie, fermière'' (1887),
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...
.
Roll,_Au_Trot.jpg, ''Au Trot'' (1888), Municipal Museum, Saverne. One of Roll's largest paintings, measuring nearly by .
File:Adolphe Alphand Roll Petit Palais PPP00112.jpg, ''Portrait de Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (; 26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. As a close associate of Baron Haussmann and later as Director of Public Works at Paris City Hall from 1871, he was inst ...
'' (1888), Petit Palais
File:Jane Hading, by Alfred Roll.jpg, ''Jane Hading'' (1890), Petit Palais
References
External links
Alfred Philippe Roll exhibition catalog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roll, Alfred Philippe 1846 births 1919 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists 19th-century French male artists